I think Jesus appears to have had a dry sense of humor, a similar tone to the the philisophers in ancient Greece. Most of the humor in the bible is dry. His wit is captured when after being scoffed at by people from his native place in Galilee, he says wryly " no prophet goes without honor except in his own hometown". I also understand it as dry-ish humor when he asks the crowd, “what did you go out to the desert to see, a reed swayed by the wind?” His gift for sharp retort is also demonstrated when the pharisees are harassing him about him healing a blind man on the sabbath. After Jesus says that he came to make the sightless see and the seeing blind, the pharisees ask him “are we blind”, and Jesus promptly answers, " if you were blind you would not be guilty, but as it is you claim sight, and so your sin remains". So much of what he says is prompt, paradoxical, and astute. If there is anyone who would have appreciated Jesus and have had a like sense of humor, it would be Socrates. They both saw the world paradoxically. There is an instance when the pug-nosed bulging- eyed Socrates is telling a male youth celebrated for his beauty that he is actually less beautiful than himself. Job also has that same brand of humor when he says to his “friend” and accuser after a long tedious response, “wisdom will die with you” There are more examples, but that’s all that come to mind right now.
