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Did Jesus ever laugh? I know that He attended a wedding once where wine was served but do you think that he ever had a good time?
 
Jesus was human like us. So I’m certain He laughed. I’m certain He had fun.
 
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Did Jesus ever laugh? I know that He attended a wedding once where wine was served but do you think that he ever had a good time?
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Well he is God-Man, which means that along with His divinity He was also fully man. Laughter is a natural human emotion, so it’s safe to say they yes he did laugh. Sorry I can’t give you more info on the question. Kind of refreshing to see new question other than the same old same old.
 
As we see in the bible Jesus attended many functions the first noted was the wedding at canna. He did his first miracle here as well. He drank wine with those he assocaited with at these gatherings. Thers are many instances of gatherings he attended so laughter was abundant. He also cried over the death of his friend lazarus. Jesus was and is us but also God so while he he did as we did except for sin!
 
*I don’t believe there is a Biblical account of Jesus laughing but there is a place in the OT Scriptures where God is laughing. You can find it in the Psalms where God is laughing or is said to be laughing at those that believe God does not exist and those that say God does not see or hear their sins. I figure since Christ is God you can say that Christ is laughing.

I think we all know that God has a sense of humor. Just look at the duck billed platypus ;)*
 
Maybe he laughed with joy upon seeing long lost friends,but who really knows for sure!
 
I remember seeing some artwork, a drawing I think, entitled something like “Laughing Jesus.” It was a shoulders-up picture of a laughing man, with a face typical to the representations we see of Our Lord.

It was powerful and it left an impression on me. At first, it hit me as a new way to think about God. The more I thought about it, the more I asked myself a why not question. Jesus loves us more than we a capable of loving. We laugh with pleasure in our own children in an expression of the happiness found in that love.

His love transcends ours, so draw your own conclusions. Mine is in favor of His laughter.
 
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*I don’t believe there is a Biblical account of Jesus laughing but there is a place in the OT Scriptures where God is laughing. You can find it in the Psalms where God is laughing or is said to be laughing at those that believe God does not exist and those that say God does not see or hear their sins. I figure since Christ is God you can say that Christ is laughing.

I think we all know that God has a sense of humor. Just look at the duck billed platypus ;)*
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Yes, there are verses in the Bible where God the father laughs, but it is often mocking laughter. You don’t want God laughing AT you, LOL.
Psalm 37
12 The wicked plot against the righteous
and gnash their teeth at them;
13 but the Lord laughs at the wicked
for he knows their day is coming.
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I haven’t seen a verse that shows Jesus is laughing, but being that he was human, I can see him smiling or at least laughing in different situations.

For example when Jesus said suffer the children to come unto me (Matthew 10:14). We all know one reason that children are delightful is because they do silly things that make adults laugh. In fact, God made them that way so that they could give us joy and their antics would make us love them more and take care of them.

Isn’t that a clever way to make sure we don’t eat"our young? But I digress.
John 14: 11“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
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The disciples didn’t look at each other, scoff and say, "Joy? What joy? ". I’m sure there were moments Jesus had with his disciples where he laughed with them.

I was just reminded of the Jesus in Godspell.
 
I think he was laughing at the sermon on the mount when he told us to remove the beam from our own eye before trying to get the speck out of our neighbor’s. Seems satirical gentle chiding IMO.👍 I would have laughed at the hyperbole!
 
If Jesus could see the inherent beauty in something as simple as the lilies of the field, then how could He not take joy and pleasure from the company of those around Him who loved Him so?

When Jesus beckoned for the children to come to Him, don’t you think that He did it with a heart overflowing with love? How could he not laugh and be amused with young, innocent children who have a natural ability to draw our love from us?

I am sure that Jesus most certainly laughed.
 
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I think he was laughing at the sermon on the mount when he told us to remove the beam from our own eye before trying to get the speck out of our neighbor’s. Seems satirical gentle chiding IMO.👍 I would have laughed at the hyperbole!
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While I usually don’t like “Jesus movies,” I remember this scene in Jesus of Nazareth where his says “Hypocrite!!!” with a loud and mocking tone to the ones who would point out the speck in their brother’s eye. I always thought that that was a bit inspired, a brief glimpse into how He very well may have looked while He was here on Earth.
 
Walshfish said:
Did Jesus ever laugh? I know that He attended a wedding once where wine was served but do you think that he ever had a good time?
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since one of the loudest criticisms against him by his enemies was for this very thing, my guess would be yes.
 
One of my favorite movie scenes is in “The Passion of the Christ” where Jesus is showing Mary the table that he made. I love it because it’s how I imagine his relationship with his mother to have been, especially after Joseph’s death. I would imagine that their bond was not only as mother/son, but as best friends - imagine living your life raising the Son of God and not being able to shout it to the world or cry over what you know is to come of him! And I love how he gently teases his mother in the scene.

I can’t imagine our Lord having 33 years of solemn heaviness. Surely he had a good sense of humor. I also like to imagine him playing with the children in his village when they passed him on the street, or the young children at the feasts and festivities he attended.
 
Well we know from John 11:35 that Jesus was capable of weeping, so I don’t see why he wouldn’t be capable of the positive expressions of strong human emotions, such as laughter. I’m sure if he wept at times when other humans would weep, he probably laughed at times when others would laugh as well.
 
Yes.Jesus enjoyed being with people,all people.He even enjoyed His enemies.He overlooked their sins and evil behavior and viewed them as human beings.Jesus was of unbelieveable character.No one has ever been like Him.He could be happy knowing the dangers He faced and could tell his followers not to worry.Not only was He the best God that man has ever worshipped He was the best Human being that they ever met.HE was all in all.His apostles just didn’t love Him because He was God but also for His humanity.
 
Walshfish said:
Did Jesus ever laugh? I know that He attended a wedding once where wine was served but do you think that he ever had a good time?
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G. K. Chesterton made this observation at the conclusion of his book Orthodoxy.
Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian. And as I close this chaotic volume I open again the strange small book from which all Christianity came; and I am again haunted by a kind of confirmation. The tremendous figure which fills the Gospels towers in this respect, as in every other, above all the thinkers who ever thought themselves tall. His pathos was natural, almost casual. The Stoics, ancient and modern, were proud of concealing their tears. He never concealed His tears; He showed them plainly on His open face at any daily sight, such as the far sight of His native city. Yet He concealed something. Solemn supermen and imperial diplomatists are proud of restraining their anger. He never restrained His anger. He flung furniture down the front steps of the Temple, and asked men how they expected to escape the damnation of Hell. Yet He restrained something. I say it with reverence; there was in that shattering personality a thread that must be called shyness. There was something that He hid from all men when He went up a mountain to pray. There was something that He covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation. There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth.
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You know, when I meditate on the wedding feast of Cana, I can’t picture Jesus sitting there like a sourpuss wallflower. After all, not only did He change the water into wine, He made the best wine served all evening!

I’d be willing to bet the rent that not only did He laugh, He congratulated the bridegroom, hugged the bride, glad-handed friends and neighbors, and probably even did some folk dancing. And I bet He was a wonderful dancer as well!

Also, with some of the stuff His apostles came up with in terms of questions and responses, which were so off-base with some of the big points of His message, I can easily picture Him stifling a guffaw as He patiently explained things to them!
 
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