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Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) We are never given any physical details about Jesus or the disciples. The reason for that is it's not essential to the Gospel message. The only person…moreWe are never given any physical details about Jesus or the disciples. The reason for that is it's not essential to the Gospel message. The only person we really know anything physical about is Paul, who had trouble with his eyes and some kind of problem (the "thorn in the flesh"), and Timothy, who had stomach trouble. I think the writers were wise to leave the extraneous physical details out, because of the habit humans have of latching on to them and making them more important than they are.(less)

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