I don't think that Jesus was a good looking man. Why? Well, when God became human, God did not want people to be admiring the face, like a person admires a movie star. Jesus said, "Come follow me," that is listen to what he has to say, and how he acts. Don't get tied up in watching and worshipping the "look." What do many of us Catholics do? We don't follow Jesus. We make nice holy cards and statues, with a face that we can admire, that attracts us. We sit and look, but ignore the Sermon on the Mount, and the parables, and just go about with our bad behavior.
In John's Gospel, chapter 20: 19-31, Jesus wants his disciples to touch him so that they will believe he has a body, though a new, resurrected one. My belief in the Risen Jesus is not so much from what they say they saw, but in how they were so changed. In this Gospel the disciples are clueless and frightened. Eventually, they become courageous enough to witness to what they saw. To me, they could not have changed so much, had they not seen Jesus and received the Spirit breathed upon them. I want to change rather than just sit around looking at holy pictures and statues.
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