Jokes in the Bible
Jokes In The Bible Jesus has a particular eye for the ironical and paradoxical. ... There are actually plenty of jokes in the Bible; certainly stories that would make the hearers laugh (the Bible was initially intended to be read aloud to a gathered audience). ... Similarly it is reckoned that shepherds were the butt of Galilean society’s jokes, and so the one about the shepherd in Luke xv leaving the 99 to search for just one would also have raised a laugh.