Here’s a serious question about levity: The Bible clearly paints a picture of Jesus of Nazareth as a clever guy, but he never seems to laugh, much less crack a smile. Did Jesus really have no sense of humor; didn’t he ever laugh? Or do we just miss Jesus’ jokes?
“Maybe we just know the stories too well. Too many Gospel stories have become stale, like overly repeated jokes.” ‘The words seem to us like old coins,’ wrote Elton Trueblood, a 20th-century Quaker scholar, ‘in which the edges have been worn smooth and the engravings have become almost indistinguishable,'” says James Martin
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