Many feminine images from the Bible, such as the Wisdom figure, Sophia, were used to describe Jesus in the early church, prior to the flowering of visual art—even Mother was a term applied to Jesus. However, by the time the controversy around artistic representations of Jesus was settled, Jesus was being portrayed as exclusively male, although sometimes as an androgynous- looking male. While race and other characteristics could vary from Jesus’s
See Dan MacClellan video: "Was Jesus intersex for 1000 years before becoming a cis man?"
