The ancient town of Trier is expecting at least half a million pilgrims over the coming month to view a tunic, put on display Friday, that was reportedly worn by Jesus.

He would have had dark skin and brown eyes. Jesus would have worn a short tunic and an undyed woollen mantle with tassels.

A shameful-looking Jesus actually ties in well with what we know from John 19.23-24, that Jesus’s tunic was made of one piece. In later centuries, especially in Egypt, there were one-piece tunics that ...