For a moment, pretend that you have received a letter from a friend who gives the following description of a person she recently met. She writes that he was "a man of middling size, and his hair was scanty, and his legs were a little crooked, and his knees were far apart; he had large eyes, and his eyebrows met, and his nose was somewhat long."[i] Now honestly, would you be much impressed? Probably not, yet the description which I just gave you is the only one in history with any credibility that tells us what the Apostle Paul looked like.
[i] From "The Acts of Paul and Thecla," as quoted by Christianity Today, August 11, 1997, p. 39.