"There are many pictures of Jesus laughing with people," he said. "At a certain point people accuse him of being a glutton and a drunkard because he is having so much fun," he said.Ītkins said Jesus's good humor is apparent in John 1:47-48 where he sees Nathanael coming and says, "Here is a true Israelite in whom there is nothing false," and when Nathanael asks how Jesus knows him, Jesus says, "I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you." "I think too that there are times when we should laugh at ourselves because that helps us connect to other people."Ītkins said there are a number of scenes in the New Testament where Jesus has fun with his disciples. "He tells us in Ecclesiastes 3:4 that there is a time to laugh and a time to dance and that these times are a gift from God.
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