Other records of Joseph Smith\u2019s visions also fail to give much detail on actual appearance.\u00a0 The record of the 16 February 1832 vision (now Section 76) that Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon shared states that \u201c[we] bear reccord \u2026 [of the] fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ\u00a0who is the son\u00a0whom we saw and with whom\u00a0we conversed in the heavenly vision.\u201d\u00a0 In describing that vision, they only said that \u201cwe beheld the\u00a0glory of the son on the right of the Father and\u00a0received of his fulness. \u2026 we saw him, even on the right hand of God.\u201d[5]<\/a>\u00a0 We only learn from this that Jesus is positioned at the right hand of God.\u00a0 At an early meeting of the School of the Prophets in 1833, the minutes noted that: \u201cmany of the brethren\u00a0saw a heavenly vision of the saviour\u00a0and concourses of angels.\u201d[6]<\/a>\u00a0 Only a note that it happened, and not much detail of what was seen.\u00a0 A January 1836 vision in the Kirtland Temple (Section 137) gave more description of the throne of God than of God Himself: \u201cI saw\u00a0the transcendant beauty of the gate\u00a0that<\/span>\u00a0enters<\/span>, through which the heirs of that kingdom will enter, which was like unto circling\u00a0flames of fire, also the blasing throne of\u00a0God, whereon was seated the Father and\u00a0the Son.\u201d[7]<\/a>\u00a0 These visions give us more details about the location than about the physical appearance of Jesus.<\/p>\n The closest we get to an actual description is the record of the 3 April 1836 vision in the House of the Lord in Kirtland.\u00a0 Perhaps this isn\u2019t too surprising, given that seeing God in the House of the Lord was a major focus for Joseph Smith, demonstrated by his statement in the dedicatory prayer of the temple that: \u201cwe have given of our substance to build a house to thy name, that the Son of Man might have a place to manifest himself to his people.\u201d[8]<\/a>\u00a0 A week after that prayer was given, a vision came to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery.\u00a0 As the record states:<\/p>\n They saw the\u00a0Lord standing upon the breast work of the pulpit\u00a0before them.\u00a0and under his feet was a paved work\u00a0of pure gold,\u00a0in color like amber: his eyes were\u00a0as a flame of fire; the hair of his head was\u00a0like the pure snow,\u00a0his countenance shone above the brightness of the sun,\u00a0and his voice was\u00a0as the sound of the rushing of great waters,\u00a0even the Voice of Jehovah, saying, I am the\u00a0first and the last. I am he who liveth. I am he\u00a0who was slain.\u00a0I am your Advocate with the\u00a0Father.[9]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n This description of Jesus seems to rely, however, on descriptions from the Revelation of John the Divine, who described Jesus as follows:<\/p>\n His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters \u2026 and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.[10]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n While the vision in the Kirtland House of the Lord is magnificent, the textual record doesn\u2019t provide new details about Jesus\u2019s appearance than those present in the Bible.<\/p>\n Interestingly, second-hand and later accounts of visions of early Latter-day Saints are more forthcoming.\u00a0 Alexander Neibaur recorded that Joseph Smith told him that during the First Vision, he \u201csaw\u00a0a fire towards heaven came near & nearer\u00a0saw a personage in the fire light complexion\u00a0blue eyes a piece of white cloth drawn over\u00a0his shoulders his right arm bear.\u201d[11]<\/a>\u00a0 The visions of Jesus at the School of the Prophets in 1833 were fleshed out in later recollections.\u00a0 Fifty years later, Zebedee Coltrin recalled that he saw Jesus and God, and \u201cwhen asked about the kind of clothing the Father had on, Bro. Coltrin said: I did not discover His clothing, for He was surrounded as with a flame of fire, which was so brilliant that I could not discover any thing else but His person.\u201d[12]<\/a>\u00a0 Coltrin, however, described Jesus\u2019s clothing by stating that: \u201cJesus was clothed in modern clothing, apparently of gray cloth.\u201d[13]<\/a>\u00a0 John Murdock also recalled a vision he had in those same meetings, stating that: \u201cI saw the form of man, most lovely, the visage of his face was sound and fair as the sun.\u00a0 His hair a bright silver grey, curled in most majestic form.\u00a0 His eyes a keen penetrating blue, and the skin of his neck a most beautiful white.\u201d[14]<\/a> \u00a0Anson Call also wrote that he had a vision of Jesus where he saw him as a man with \u201clight and beautiful skin with large blue eyes.\u201d[15]<\/a>\u00a0 Who knows how reliable any of this is (Coltrin, for example, proved to have an unreliable memory on the ordination of one of the few Black elders in the Church, Elijah Able), but it does demonstrate a pattern of Latter-day Saints seeing Jesus as a white-skinned man with blue eyes.<\/p>\n The idea of Jesus being a Caucasian male tends to align with an underlying idea of universal whiteness presented in Joseph Smith\u2019s translations.\u00a0 The Book of Mormon portrays Jesus as white.\u00a0 When he visits the Nephites after his resurrection, \u201cthey did pray unto him \u2026 and behold they were as white as the countenance and also the garments of Jesus; and behold the whiteness thereof did exceed all the whiteness, yea, even there could be nothing upon earth so white as the whiteness thereof.\u201d[16]<\/a>\u00a0 Nephi also described Mary, the mother of Jesus, as being \u201cexceedingly fair and white.\u201d[17]<\/a>\u00a0 Beyond this, the descendants of Lehi are depicted as being white (Nephi notes that the Europeans he saw coming to the Americas in vision were \u201cwhite, and exceedingly fair and beautiful, like unto my people\u201d),[18]<\/a> with darker skin coming to the Lamanites as part of a curse: \u201cThe Lord \u2026 had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity.\u00a0 \u2026 Wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.\u201d[19]<\/a>\u00a0 Joseph Smith inserted similar ideas into Genesis during his New Translation of the Bible project, stating that a \u201cpeople of Canaan\u201d were going to be cursed for slaying the people of Shum, and \u201ca blackness came upon all the children of Canaan, that they were despised among all people.\u201d[20]<\/a>\u00a0 The underlying assumption in much of these narratives is that whiteness is a sign of righteousness while darkness is a sign of wickedness.<\/p>\n These narratives combined with assumptions about race in 19th<\/sup> century America to cause many Latter-day Saints to believe that Jesus was white. \u00a0Perhaps George Reynolds stated it most bluntly in an 1868 Church publication when he wrote that: \u201cWe understand that when God made man in his own image and pronounced him very good, that he made him white\u201d and that God\u2019s \u201cfavored servants,\u201d including \u201call His prophets and apostles belong to the most handsome race on the face of the earth,\u201d and that \u201cin this race was born His Son Jesus, who, we are told was very lovely and \u2018in the express image of his Father\u2019s person.\u201d[21]<\/a> Assumptions like these may have been why Joseph Smith felt comfortable comparing his brother Alvin\u2019s physical appearance to both Seth and Adam, stating that: \u201chis brother\u00a0Alvin \u2026 was\u00a0a very handsome man. Surpassd\u00a0by none but Adam & Seth.\u201d[22]<\/a>\u00a0 Statements like the one Reynolds wrote are disturbing, however, there is context to be understood here.<\/p>\n Modern depictions of Jesus are rooted in the Later Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire).\u00a0 If we take the description of the suffering servant in Isaiah 53 to represent Jesus, then he would have been ordinary in appearance for his time and place: \u201che had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.\u201d[23]<\/a>\u00a0 He was Jewish, as noted in the Epistle to the Hebrews: \u201cIt is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah.\u201d[24]<\/a>\u00a0 That likely meant that he was a dark-skinned, brown-eyed Middle-Easterner. \u00a0Depictions of Jesus were sparce and late in coming during the early Christian era.\u00a0 The earliest artistic depictions of Jesus come from the 3rd<\/sup> Century AD, such as the artwork at Dura-Europos, and aren\u2019t very detailed, with the most notable features being dark hair and, in some cases, a scruffy, short beard (which was in keeping with the expectations for philosophers in the Greco-Roman world).\u00a0 As Christianity became more established in the Roman empire however, Jesus began to be depicted using both standard imagery for gods and emperors in the Roman world.\u00a0 The chief God of the Greco-Roman pantheon, Zeus\/Jupiter, was depicted as sitting on a throne with long hair and a beard.\u00a0 This was a well-known image and being clean-shaven and short-haired was considered important in their society because long hair and a long beard were considered godly and not to be replicated by mere mortals.\u00a0 Thus, the imagery of Jesus as being a European man with long hair and a luxuriant beard was born out of a symbolic co-opting of Zeus\u2019s imagery to make Jesus look like a god in the Greco-Roman world of late antiquity.[25]<\/a><\/p>\n While initially symbolic, the imagery became ingrained in European Christian thought in the coming centuries.\u00a0 One influential document in this regard was the fraudulent mediaeval text, \u201cPublius Lentulus Letter,\u201d which presented itself as a description of Jesus by a Judean governor and contemporary of the Christ.\u00a0 Jesus is described in the letter as a \u201cman of stature somewhat tall, and comely, with a very reverend countenance,\u201d wavy brown hair that was parted \u201cin the midst of his head\u201d and a \u201cthickish\u201d beard, \u201cin colour like his hair, not very long, but forked.\u201d\u00a0 His physique was described as \u201cmost excellent\u201d and having \u201csingular beauty, surpassing the children of men.\u201d[26]<\/a>\u00a0 While the letter is regarded today as a fake, composed centuries after Jesus\u2019s death, it was influential for a long time in supporting the notion that Jesus was Caucasian.<\/p>\n Thus, artwork, particularly in northern Europe, has frequently depicted Jesus as a white man and that tradition has carried over into the Church.\u00a0 That many early Church members embraced notions of white supremacy that had been used to justify enslaving black Africans (co-opting them to justify barring Blacks from the priesthood and temple rituals in the Church) only served to reinforce the idea that Jesus and his chief disciples must have been white, as indicated by Reynold\u2019s statement.[27]<\/a><\/p>\n Give the history traced briefly in the above paragraphs, I am doubtful that Jesus would have had fair skin or blue eyes.\u00a0 He was not European, and particularly not northern European, after all.\u00a0 That being the case, what, then, are we to make of the descriptions of Jesus in 19th<\/sup> century Mormon visions as having white skin and blue eyes?\u00a0 At this point, I can think of three major explanations that could be explored.\u00a0 First among these is to question the reliability of the accounts\u2014many of them are second-hand or recorded decades after the event.\u00a0 Memory can be a slippery thing and is shaped by events that have happened since the moment being recalled and by the beliefs and needs of the person recalling the memory, which may be the case here.\u00a0 A second option is to point to the fact that many of these recollections dwell on the fact that Jesus was radiant, glorious, and cloaked in light or fire.\u00a0 Perhaps that light had the effect of causing the eyes of the individual observing the vision to perceive Jesus as fair-skinned and blue eyed, regardless of his actual physical appearance.\u00a0 Not having been a participant in these visions, it is difficult to say what was seen.<\/p>\n The third option is to consider the idea that Jesus may appear differently to different people so that they will recognize him according to their expectations and focus on the message being presented.\u00a0 The Book of Mormon states that: \u201cthe Lord God giveth light unto the understanding; for he speaketh unto men according to their language, unto their understanding.\u201d[28]<\/a>\u00a0 Likewise, the Lord stated in the preface revelation for the Doctrine and Covenants that \u201cthese commandments are of me, and were given unto my servants in their weakness, after the manner of their language, that they might come to understanding.\u201d[29]<\/a>\u00a0 Joseph Smith also taught in 1839 that: \u201cwe may come to Jesus\u00a0<?& ask him?> he will know all about it.\u2014 If he\u00a0comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the <?Language &?> capacity of\u00a0a little child.\u201d[30]<\/a>\u00a0 Each of these give an indication that Jesus adapts to the language and needs of the people he communicates with.\u00a0 What\u2019s to say that he doesn\u2019t do this with how he appears in visions as well?<\/p>\n After all, we do have the example of the Holy Ghost displaying itself as a dove in vision when Jesus was baptized.\u00a0 We read that John the Baptizer saw \u201cthe Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him\u201d and heard \u201ca voice from heaven.\u201d[31]<\/a>\u00a0 In the Gospel According to St. Luke, this is stated in even more tangible terms: \u201cwhen Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened,\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove.\u201d[32]<\/a>\u00a0 Joseph Smith even spoke in 1843 about John the Baptizer \u201cbeholding the\u00a0Holy\u00a0Ghost<\/em>\u00a0descend upon [Jesus] in the\u00a0sign<\/em>\u00a0of the\u00a0Dove.\u201d[33]<\/a>\u00a0 The Prophet clarified that the \u201cHoly Gh[o]st is a personage in\u00a0the form of a personage,\u201d [34]<\/a> and thus: \u201cThe Holy Ghost cannot be transformed\u00a0into a Dove but the sign of a Dove was\u00a0given to John to signify the Truth of\u00a0the Deed.\u201d[35]<\/a>\u00a0 The Holy Ghost is confined to an anthropomorphic spirit body, but was able to display the appearance of a dove descending onto Jesus as a sign to John the Baptizer.\u00a0 It is entirely possible that Jesus is able to do similar things while appearing in visions to people, as is beautifully suggested in the Alfed Burt carol, \u201cSome Children See Him\u201d:<\/p>\n Some children see Him lily white, Some children see Him bronzed and brown, Some children see Him almond-eyed, Some children see Him dark as they, The children in each different place As stated at the outset, however, attempts at knowing what Jesus looked like are speculation and conjecture.\u00a0 Our scriptural canon gives us no real definitive statement on Jesus\u2019s description, which gives us artistic freedom to imagine his appearance.\u00a0 And the Church has become more open to different depictions, sharing artwork in recent years depicting Jesus not only as lily white but (to use the words of the carol), also bronzed and brown,[36]<\/a> with skin of yellow hue,[37]<\/a> and dark.[38]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Footnotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n [1]<\/a> “History, circa Summer 1832,” p. 3, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 26, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/history-circa-summer-1832\/3<\/a><\/p>\n [2]<\/a> “Journal, 1835\u20131836,” p. 24, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 26, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/journal-1835-1836\/25<\/a><\/p>\n [3]<\/a> “History, circa June 1839\u2013circa 1841 [Draft 2],” p. 3, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 26, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/history-circa-june-1839-circa-1841-draft-2\/3<\/a><\/p>\n [4]<\/a> “\u201cChurch History,\u201d 1 March 1842,” p. 707, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 26, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/church-history-1-march-1842\/2<\/a><\/p>\n [5]<\/a> “Vision, 16 February 1832 [D&C 76],” p. 2, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 26, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/vision-16-february-1832-dc-76\/2<\/a><\/p>\n [6]<\/a> “Minutes, 18 March 1833,” p. 17, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 26, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/minutes-18-march-1833\/2<\/a><\/p>\n [7]<\/a> “Visions, 21 January 1836 [D&C 137],” p. 136, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 26, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/visions-21-january-1836-dc-137\/1<\/a><\/p>\n [8]<\/a> “Prayer of Dedication, 27 March 1836 [D&C 109],” p. [1], The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 26, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/prayer-of-dedication-27-march-1836-dc-109\/1<\/a><\/p>\n [9]<\/a> “Visions, 3 April 1836 [D&C 110],” p. 192, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 26, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/visions-3-april-1836-dc-110\/1<\/a><\/p>\n [10]<\/a> Revelation 1:14-16, KJV.<\/p>\n [11]<\/a> “Alexander Neibaur, Journal, 24 May 1844, extract,” p. [23], The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 26, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/alexander-neibaur-journal-24-may-1844-extract\/1<\/a><\/p>\n [12]<\/a> School of the Prophets Salt Lake City Minutes, 3 Oct. 1883.<\/p>\n [13]<\/a> Minutes, Salt Lake City School of the Prophets, October 11, 1883. http:\/\/www.boap.org\/LDS\/Early-Saints\/ZebC.html<\/a><\/p>\n [14]<\/a>[14] John Murdock Journal<\/em>, 13, cited in Ensign<\/em>, January 1993, 37.<\/p>\n [15]<\/a> The life and Record of Anson Call<\/em>, 22-23.<\/p>\n [16]<\/a> 3 Nephi 19:25.<\/p>\n [17]<\/a> 1 Nephi 11:13.<\/p>\n [18]<\/a> 1 Nephi 13:15.<\/p>\n [19]<\/a> 2 Nephi 5:20-21.<\/p>\n [20]<\/a> Moses 7:6-8.<\/p>\n [21]<\/a> George Reynolds, \u201cMan and His Varieties,\u201d Juvenile Instructor<\/em>, 15 October 1868, 157, https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/juvenileinstruct320geor\/page\/156\/mode\/2up<\/a>.<\/p>\n [22]<\/a> “Journal, December 1842\u2013June 1844; Book 1, 21 December 1842\u201310 March 1843,” p. [123], The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 27, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/journal-december-1842-june-1844-book-1-21-december-1842-10-march-1843\/131<\/a><\/p>\n [23]<\/a> Isaiah 53:2, NRSV.<\/p>\n [24]<\/a> Hebrews 7:14, NRSV.<\/p>\n [25]<\/a> Joan Taylor, \u201cWhat did Jesus really look like?\u201d, BBC, <\/em>24 December 2015, accessed 28 September 2021, https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-35120965<\/a><\/p>\n [26]<\/a> Cited in John Turner, The Mormon Jesus: A Biography<\/em> (Cambridge and London: Belknap Press, 2016), 255.<\/p>\n [27]<\/a> For a more detailed discussion of the racist notions mentioned here, see the author\u2019s previous post, \u201cReconsidering the Curse of Ham,\u201d https:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/harchive\/2020\/09\/reconsidering-the-curse-of-ham\/<\/a><\/p>\n [28]<\/a> 2 Nephi 31:3.<\/p>\n [29]<\/a> D&C 1:24.<\/p>\n [30]<\/a> “Discourse, between circa 26 June and circa 4 August 1839\u2013A, as Reported by Willard Richards,” p. 73, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 29, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/discourse-between-circa-26-june-and-circa-4-august-1839-a-as-reported-by-willard-richards\/11<\/a><\/p>\n [31]<\/a> Matthew 3:16-17, NRSV.<\/p>\n [32]<\/a> Luke 3:21-22, NRSV.<\/p>\n [33]<\/a> “Discourse, 29 January 1843, as Reported by Willard Richards\u2013B,” p. [2], The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 29, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/discourse-29-january-1843-as-reported-by-willard-richards-b\/1<\/a><\/p>\n [34]<\/a> “Journal, December 1842\u2013June 1844; Book 1, 21 December 1842\u201310 March 1843,” p. [155], The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 29, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/journal-december-1842-june-1844-book-1-21-december-1842-10-march-1843\/163<\/a><\/p>\n [35]<\/a> “Discourse, 29 January 1843, as Reported by Franklin D. Richards,” p. [12], The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed September 29, 2021, https:\/\/www.josephsmithpapers.org\/paper-summary\/discourse-29-january-1843-as-reported-by-franklin-d-richards\/3<\/a><\/p>\n [36]<\/a> See \u201cThe First Vision,\u201d Anthony Sweat, https:\/\/deseretbook.com\/p\/17×23-first-visions-framed-textured-paper?ref=Grid%20%7C%20Search-31&variant_id=188118-framed-textured-paper<\/a><\/p>\n [37]<\/a> See \u201cSopheap Nhem, \u201cEarly Morning with the Savior,\u201d https:\/\/history.churchofjesuschrist.org\/exhibit\/iac-2015-tell-me-the-stories-of-jesus?lang=eng#mv63<\/a><\/p>\n [38]<\/a> See \u201cChrist on the Cross,\u201d by Emile Wilson, https:\/\/history.churchofjesuschrist.org\/media\/christ-on-the-cross-emile-wilson?lang=eng#1<\/a>; \u201cChrist Praying in Gethsemane,\u201d by Emile Wilson, https:\/\/history.churchofjesuschrist.org\/media\/christ-praying-in-gethsemane-emile-wilson?lang=eng#1<\/a>; \u201cThe Last Supper,\u201d by Emile Wilson, https:\/\/history.churchofjesuschrist.org\/exhibit\/atonement-of-christ?lang=eng#mv4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What does Jesus look like?\u00a0 It\u2019s a question that we can only guess the answer to or speculate about, but one that does come up in a religion that embraces using artistic depictions of members of the Godhead.\u00a0 In general, the scriptures fail to describe his physical appearance in any detail.\u00a0 Joseph Smith documented several visions where he described seeing Jesus and God the Father, though nothing definitive about their appearances comes from the documents on the subject.\u00a0 History and archeology give us some clues, all of which are interesting to explore.\u00a0 At the end of the day, however, we do not really know what Jesus looks like. Several visions are recorded by Joseph Smith, including the dramatic appearance in the Kirtland Temple recorded in Section 110.\u00a0 Contemporary, first-hand accounts of the 1820s First Vision include the appearance of Jesus, though little in the ways of details.\u00a0 In 1832, Joseph Smith wrote that he saw \u201ca piller of\u00a0fire\u00a0light above the brightness of the sun at noon day\u201d and that \u201cthe\u00a0<?Lord?>\u00a0opened the heavens upon\u00a0me and I saw the Lord.\u201d[1]\u00a0 In 1835, he gave little more detail, only noting that \u201ca\u00a0personage appeard in the midst, of this pillar\u00a0of flame \u2026 another personage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10397,"featured_media":42107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2895,31,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-come-follow-me-currculum","category-images","category-scriptures"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Zeus.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42114,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42106\/revisions\/42114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ag-obj-34498-004-pub-print-lg.tif_paper-617x800.jpg\")
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\nthe baby Jesus born this night.
\nSome children see Him lily white,
\nwith tresses soft and fair.<\/p>\n
\nThe Lord of heav’n to earth come down.
\nSome children see Him bronzed and brown,
\nwith dark and heavy hair.<\/p>\n
\nthis Savior whom we kneel beside.
\nsome children see Him almond-eyed,
\nwith skin of yellow hue.<\/p>\n
\nsweet Mary’s Son to whom we pray.
\nSome children see him dark as they,
\nand, ah! they love Him, too!<\/p>\n
\nwill see the baby Jesus’ face
\nlike theirs, but bright with heavenly grace,
\nand filled with holy light.<\/p>\n