a sense of humour???
2007-01-19 00:35:55 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. He was a person full of fun, the kind of person children like to be with. The Old Testament is full of wordplay and pun, which we can so easily miss. The New Testament too we perhaps read with the sobriety of the cross that we miss the humour in Jesus' life. Just think for a moment about Jesus' affectionate teasing of the disciples when they just don't get it, of his irony and satire towards the Pharisees, (the whitewashed tombs) or his banter with the Syro-Phoencian woman in Mark 7. Exaggeration and the ridiculous too is a humorous technique of Jesus to get his message across. A man trying to remove sawdust from another's eye when in fact he has a plank in his own eye has been rightly called a cartoon in words. Or imagine a camel squeezing through the eye of a needle (Matthew 19:24) or a Pharisee swallowing a huge hairy, smelly camel. (Matthew 23:24) This visual humour makes Jesus's teaching memorable.
Humour in the Bible gives us hope because we are just as much without hope as the characters in the Bible that Jesus talks about and often teases. If there was still hope for them, there must still be hope for us.
The ultimate humour of course lies in the resurrection....
Jokes are about incongruity, broken rules, surprising meanings. The build-up leads you to expect a certain outcome, then BAM! The punchline overturns your expectations.
The resurrection is just this, an incongruity. Expectation states that death is the end, but God turns everything on its head. As we approach Easter we can remember that the resurrection is God's last laugh!
2007-01-19 02:28:37 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus as a man he did have sense humor, but he did come to earth to be having fun, he came to die for you and me, and everybody as the biggest sacrifice ever made just for ous to have eternal life, so you know what did Jesus have when he came to earth was a lot of love.
2007-01-19 00:45:12 · answer #2 · answered by RED ROSE 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
obviously, He created us to his similarity so if we have sense of humour He has to have but the good one.
2007-01-19 00:39:56 · answer #3 · answered by Cranberrydude 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Probably not. From the picture painted of him in the bible, he seemed pretty intolerant and foul tempered. Maybe he was really trying some radical form of performance-art comedy, though, and no one got the joke.
2007-01-19 00:39:14 · answer #4 · answered by That Guy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
presuming he is real of course he did....had to have...we all need a sense of humour....
2007-01-19 00:39:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was charismatic, but I do not recall any specific reference to humor.
2007-01-19 00:39:23 · answer #6 · answered by charles 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus Gonzales did!
2007-01-19 00:38:27 · answer #7 · answered by sshazzam 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
No verse in the New Testament says
"...and Jesus smiled."
"...and Jesus laughed."
"...and Jesus bathed."
2007-01-19 00:40:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
he was human so probably do you know the story of the speck in your friends eye whene you have a plank in yours that might have been intended to be humoros who knows the bible didnt say
2007-01-19 00:38:34 · answer #9 · answered by bballboyrocks 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He was just bad with communication. Have you seen how big his mobile phone was?
2007-01-19 00:55:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋