Does anyone else just get a kick out of some parts of the Bible?

[Beryllos]

The story of Samson (Judges 14-16). He mows them down like Schwarzenegger in Commando.

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[StephieNorthCo]

Then Elijah and the prophets of baal (1 Kings 18:27 I think) is pretry funny. Hey, maybe baal is asleep, or travelling. Pray louder.

 

[BartholomewB]

Judges 3 when the king is stabbed and the stab wound is so deep that the fat closes around the sword. Worthy of Tarentino!!

In addition to Tarantino, that assassination episode is reminiscent of an early Paul Newman movie about Billy the Kid, titled Left-Handed Gun.

 

[Limoncello4021]

A very Catholic friend of mine once cracked up while teaching the episode in the Gospels where Jesus talks about how God cares for even the sparrow, and then Jesus turns to the disciples and assures them, “Don’t worry, you are worth more than an entire flock of sparrows!” It is kind of funny if you say it in the right voice.

 

[TheLittleLady]

In Acts, when accused of being drunk when the Apostles reply “Drunk? It is way too early in the morning for that!”

 

[jack63]

I always found part of John 20:11-18 to be pretty amusing. It is an extremely important event, but even here there seems to be humor. Mary Magdalene is the first Jesus risen from the dead, and she assumes he is a gardener. She starts asking him details about what is going on and where the body went assuming that the gardener should know this. Jesus finally says “Mary!”, and she figures out what actually happened.

This part of the Bible gives me faith because it is too hard to make up…a gardener!

 

[PetraG]

Of course I do. God has a sense of humour (which is fitting, since he made us in his image). One of my favourites is Acts 2:15 (Go look it up)

As a child, I once laughed out loud in church at this line:
“For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.’” Luke 18:4-5
I could just picture this old scoundrel being afraid an old lady was going to go after him, following him down the street and whacking him with her stick. What vivid picture!!

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

I love the story of The Exorcism of the Syrophoenician woman’s daughter.

Jesus tells her His miracles are for the children of Israel.
And without hesitation or anger, she comes back with the remark about the puppies who eat the scraps from the table.

I always think Jesus knew she was full of sass.

Amd she got her own way

 

[PetraG]

I love the story of The Exorcism of the Syrophoenician woman’s daughter.

Jesus tells her His miracles are for the children of Israel.
And without hesitation or anger, she comes back with the remark about the puppies who eat the scraps from the table.

I always think Jesus knew she was full of sass.

Amd she got her own way

He gave her the chance to make an act of faith, and she didn’t disappoint. He repeatedly interpreted persistence as a sign of faith.

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

Then there is Jesus’ typically teenage response when lost and then found in the Temple - 'why were you worried? ’ You can almost see the eyeroll.

I picture Jesus delivering that line with a sense awe awe and wonder

ie see what I can do!

 

[Dovekin]

While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?”
Luke 24: 41

I always picture Jesus looking info the refrigerator when I hear this.

 

[LilyM]

LilyM:

Then there is Jesus’ typically teenage response when lost and then found in the Temple - 'why were you worried? ’ You can almost see the eyeroll.

I picture Jesus delivering that line with a sense awe awe and wonder

ie see what I can do!

Maybe, but I see it as more typically teenage oblivion to the trouble He had caused, and Joseph and Mary would’ve been “OF COURSE we were worried, you were missing for three days!” Hence the eyerolls.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.’

I was also thinking of that this past Sunday when the reading from Luke 11 had Jesus saying,

And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend to whom he goes at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey and I have nothing to offer him,’ and he says in reply from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been locked and my children and I are already in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’ I tell you, if he does not get up to give the visitor the loaves because of their friendship, he will get up to give him whatever he needs because of his persistence.

I’m picturing some guy and his family trying to sleep and his neighbor is beating down the door and the guy’s wife is saying, “Just go give him the bread already before he wakes up the whole household, the baby is going to start crying any minute!”

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I picture Jesus delivering that line with a sense awe awe and wonder

ie see what I can do!

“Mom, it’s fine. Relax! My Father said it was okay.”

 

[Dan_Defender]

Samson and Delilah. I mean, three times he gave her the wrong instructions as to the secret of his strength, three time she betrays him and then he still falls for it for the fourth time?? what? anybody would have left this woman after the first time, what am I missing??

 

[Vico]

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Anybody else have favorite Bible moments like this?

Tobit is interesting, all previous husbands died on the wedding night --Chapter 7:

10 Raguel overheard the words, and said to the young man, ‘Eat and drink, and make the most of your evening; no one else has the right to take my daughter Sarah – no one but you, my brother. In any case even I am not at liberty to give her to anyone else, since you are her next of kin. However, my boy, I must be frank with you:
11 I have tried to find a husband for her seven times among our kinsmen, and all of them have died the first evening, on going to her room. But for the present, my boy, eat and drink; the Lord will grant you his grace and peace.’ Tobias spoke out, ‘I will not hear of eating and drinking till you have come to a decision about me.’ Raguel answered, ‘Very well. Since, by the prescription of the Book of Moses she is given to you, Heaven itself decrees she shall be yours. I therefore entrust your sister to you. From now on you are her brother and she is your sister. She is given to you from today for ever. The Lord of heaven favour you tonight, my child, and grant you his grace and peace.’

But he lived.

 

[TheLittleLady]

Love is not only blind, it is deaf, mute and unable to smell.

 

[phil19034]

Or how about when Jesus tells the apostles to shake the dirt of their sandals into their doorway if they won’t welcome them

 

[JimG]

Well, there is Deuteronomy 25:11-12

Deuteronomy 25:11-12 NIV - - Bible Gateway

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[Rhubarb]

My favorite scene is when Jesus came upon a fig tree and was hungry. But the fig didn’t have any figs, because it wasn’t the season for figs. So he cursed the tree, for some reason.