Where do our ideas of what Jesus looked like come from?  I am sure that one artist must have given his rendition, and another saw it, tweaked it, made it look more "holy".  After all, this was the Son of God they were trying to paint.  God himself in human form.  You wouldn't have wanted to paint a picture of a common looking man.

So what we have are pictures of very handsome men.  Thin and wispy.  I've never seen a picture of Jesus with muscles.  And yet, he spent his first 30 years as a carpenter.  Lifting logs, using a ragged tooth hand saw.  Hefting lumber to build houses.  Probably carrying logs long distances.  He would have cut his hands.  There would have been scars on his arms.  You couldn't do that for 30 years and not look the part.

His hands would have been callused just like Peter's hands.  He would have been muscular just like Peter was.  They were both "working men."  You would never have looked at Jesus and thought, "Isn't he sweet."  When he took a whip to the money changers in the temple, he had the hands to do it--very effectively.  He cleaned them out.  Nobody stood up to him.  He was a man's man.

Isaiah described him this way:  Isa. 53: 2b-3a  "...he has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him...a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief…"  And Peter followed him.

Peter saw truth in Jesus.  He saw a man that had paid his dues.  Jesus was  the man that would draw Peter away from his fishing nets and make Peter a "Fisher of Men".  He changed him.  He changes you and me.  If you aren't changed, you might want recheck the man you say you believe in.  He's certainly worth following.