An April 19th article entitled "As a Black Child in Los Angeles, I Couldn’t Understand Why Jesus Had Blue Eyes" addressed the frequently-voiced observation that many artists' renderings of Jesus portray him as a "fair skinned, fair haired, blue eyed" man, a likely inaccurate Westernized version of Jesus, a middle eastern man.
However, the article also asserted (because of an "editing error," according to the Times) that "Jesus, born in Bethlehem, was most likely a Palestinian man with dark skin." A screenshot of the article as it originally appeared (April 19th online, April 20th in print on page A2) is shown here:
On April 27th, the article was updated to say, "But Jesus, a Jew born in Bethlehem, presumably had the complexion of a Middle Eastern man," as shown here:
The full correction reads, "Because of an editing error, an article last Saturday referred incorrectly to Jesus’s background. While he lived in an area that later came to be known as Palestine, Jesus was a Jew who was born in Bethlehem."
