The overweight Jesus makes a good image but appears older than Jesus. Perhaps looks like Paul. It may be an image of Socrates.Everybody Wang Chung wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2026 3:55 pmAccording to forensic science, Jesus was less of a Hollywood leading man and more short and stocky 5'1 Galilean. Here’s what scientists actually think he would have looked like:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cultur ... esus-face/
So, if the church actually wants an historically accurate depiction of Jesus, the statue in the lobby ought to look something like this:
The facial image is of course an approximate guess but very likely closer than all the handsome European facial types people have used. I have been puzzled by the odd expression, however. (In the boat and sat on a fish?)
Even though the disciples chuckled over the fish incident it did not get included in the later written story.

