re was jesus black jesus was born a jew we have biblical accounts of both his mother s ancestry and his father s both tracing back to david it seems reasonable to assume therefore that jesus was semitic as an interesting aside jesus being semitic makes him neither white nor black and in some sense underscores the point made earlier that his color was not important it was his message his grace and his divinity that we should concentrate on finally i would direct anyone interested in african involvement in the church to the account of the conversion of the ethiopian eunuch in acts chapter i think it s chapter this is one of the earliest conversions and the eunuch treasurer to the queen of the ethiopians was definitely african because ethiopia at that time indicated a region just south of egypt many also speculate that this man was not only the first african christian but the first black christian as well god bless charles campbell
