Did Jesus ever....

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TimothyGirl

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Based on Proverbs 16-9 perhaps?
also
I have been taught they were called Sons of Thunder was for another reason.
https://www.christianity.com/jesus/life-of-jesus/disciples/transforming-the-sons-of-thunder.html
Thanks for the backing, shittim; I was also raised with the same view as you have given the link to :)

I'm just blessed to know that Jesus chooses people like James and John - the rough-and-tumble Sons of Thunder (however they got their nicknames ;)) - and people like you and me to follow Him: broken people who don't have it altogether. And I look forward to laughing together with Him, both now and in the days to come!!
 

shittim

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Your words have touched the heart again, bless you Timothy Girl.
 

oyster67

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laugh or smile?

i think of him as completely serious all the time.
Not to the point of being gruff, but perhaps ascetic and austere when necessary. Compassionate is the word that comes to my mind. A smile can be comforting. He was surely that. Most of His laughter will probably be in the future when all of His children get home.

Isaiah
53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.
53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
53:5 But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.