Jesus Laughed.
Jesus laughed. This sentence is found nowhere in Scripture. "Jesus wept." is found in John 11:35 and is the shortest verse in the Bible. Besides this being the shortest verse in Scripture, we can be well assured that Jesus experienced all emotions, including laughter or light-heartedness and joy. The depiction many receive of Jesus is from Isaiah 53:2-3 ..... "He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem." This portrait of Jesus is justified because His mission was a serious and critical one, plus He was all about His Father's business. " Traditionally, paintings of Jesus have tended toward melancholy portrayals of a somber, glum Savior. It is true that Jesus became our Sin-bearer (1 Peter 2:24) and that He “was despised and ...