"Suppose you are an intellectual impostor with nothing to say, but with strong ambitions to succeed in academic life, collect a coterie of reverent disciples and have students around the world anoint your pages with respectful yellow highlighter. What kind of literary style would you cultivate? Not a lucid one, surely, for clarity would expose your lack of content." --Richard Dawkins (atheist)
Jesus was Jewish and kept Mosaic Law.
Lev 19:27 You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. (ESV)