Yeshua Was a Dark Brown-Skinned Semitic Refugee One of the earliest images of the Messiah, painted in the Roman catacombs centuries before Europe rewrote the visuals, showing Yeshua (YHWH Saves): a dark-brown skinned, dark curly short-haired Semitic refugee-immigrant from the Galilean ‘ghetto,’ remembered as his own people saw Him, not as later empires rebranded Him.