Did Jesus ever crack a joke??

I find humor in his "camel through the needle" bit.

The logic of the crucifixion has elements of humor in it if you like particularly dark humor regarding the nature of sin and whether such a thing even makes sense.

There's also the one about when he tells his disciples to collect a mule from a rich owner with the explanation that the mule is God's. Then the details of whether the owner of the mule agreed to this logic was left out, which is kind of funny because it happens not long before Jesus is crucified with thieves and his pals make claims that they didn't know him.

The whole slicing a Roman soldier's ear is kind of funny too. They did that and weren't gutted? Something is definitely funny about that!

So there are all kinds of inside jokes/ dark humor going on there, but I bet most people miss it.

Jesus Christ was the chosen Prophet by the Almighty GOD ...

He was sent down to Earth with a message to spread awareness of God's existence; as also to bring the Jews in line with His message ... So, naturally, then there is no mention in any of the Holy Books or his personal history about him cracking jokes or laughing ...

Even so, I feel, he was not serious all the time; there may have been moments when he must have smiled, laughed and joined his followers in a jocular way.

I would think that since Jesus is the son of God and Jesus is God himself hence " The Father , the Son and the Holy Spirit "

He would have cracked a joke once in a while since his father/himself was the one who invented "humour" itself .

you know what the funny thing about this question is that i was reading this book by this guy called Neale Donald Walsch about two days ago and the book is called "Conversations with God ". this guy Neale said that he had an actual conversation with God in 1998 and he wrote down the whole conversation down whilst it was happening and he decided to write a book about the whole whole conversation . And in this book God cracked a coulpe of jokes !!

No He didn't. His apostles taught against jokes so there is no way He would have cracked one. The Bible in Ephesians 5:4 says "Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving." So Jesus was always serious and in the busness of saving sinners from their sins. Be blessed.

I find it hard to believe Christ would have gone through 33 years of life in dead sobriety of mood. I would venture to guess he and the Apostles had a pretty good time now and then, and I'm sure jokes were passed around.

But I guess the real question is: was anything actually funny in the first century?

I am sure he joked around. After all He created humor, jokes and laughter. He also has created everything you think is funny. Honestly Jesus could probably give the funniest stand up anyone has ever heard.

He made jokes - a friend of mine who is studying theology tells me he was quite a smart-mouth. :)

As for the guy who said he gave women mouths - ok, I'll accept that as a bit of light-hearted repartee, as cliche as it may be. I'm not religious, but I just wonder if you know the difference between God and Jesus? It seems illogical to me that Jesus created women before he was born, don't you think? Just a ponder, to clear up any IGNORANCE around.

P.S. And life is too short NOT to make jokes!!! Jokes aren't just foolishness, real humor is insightful and intelligent and holds important lessons. Whoever said Jesus was too busy to be funny must have an awful oppinion of him.

Most likely. Though it probably isn't found in today's Bible since that thing has been retranslated so many times and re-interpreted and edited so many times that half of it is missing.

So if he ever did crack a joke, it was probably cut during on of those shouting matches they had to decide what was doctrine and what wasn't.

I believe Jesus had a sense of humor by the friends he had that were mentioned in the Bible and the fact that His Father YHVH did, One example is when YHVH gave those men hemroids...(Not funny to them, but funny)

There was once when JOKE was written on an eggshell and he couldn't even crack it!