He appears to, well, not laugh, - though one wonders about what He might have got up to during the thirty years which pass undocumented; perhaps he sinned once or twice when He was young, you and I don't know, do we?
He does appear to have grown into a bit of a radical peacenik, and convivial with it, so it's said, isn't it? From pretty much all accounts, He seemed to be fond of company. Although He unfortunately didn't write much down, and exceptions can of course be found, He does appear to have been a pious Jew, and His real problem appears to have been with the intrusion of the commercial into the pious life, and in general with the constant trope of oppression which had become all too evident by virtue of the Roman Legionaries marching around crucifying tens or hundreds of pious Jews every day, speaking in a tongue which few, even the rabbis like Jesus and the Apostles, would have understood as the lingua Franca was Greek not Latin, and the mother tongue would have been Aramaic or Hebrew, at the time of Jesus's death / (whatever one chooses instead).
In a way, Judas had the worse role: he appears to have had to betray Jesus. If he had not then He would not have been crucified, martyred, resurrected, and there would probably be no Christianity as there would have been no crucifixion and Jesus would have continued to be a Jewish rabbi as He had been to date.
(Parenthetically, which is why it's in parentheses, if you look to whichever Bible you choose and read Acts 2:1 - 14, and compare it with the Jewish version here. I do not understand much of the language, still it is obviously the same story. There is an equivalent in the Q'ran too though it is narrated in a different manner. It seems to suggest, perhaps, that the New Testament is a Jewish text, or at least that part of it is: if it were not then surely the Judaic version could never have been written, could it? It is interesting to note that the Jewish version refers to Zeus rather than Jupiter. This also shows that the Apostles considered themselves to be Jewish rabbis, even after the Passion.
An additional aside: I do not consider myself to be a Christian, my familiarity with the different flavors of Judaism and the fewer flavors of Islam is as limited as my knowledge of Scripture or my understanding of the various arcane points of theology which led to the idea of Christianity being so fragmented today, so I am most definitely not speaking from a position of any authority. From this layman's point of view though, it would seem likely that Christianity (as it is practiced by most sects outside of Africa, is a quite different thing now than it was then). It also appears that many of the changes began when Constantine declared Christianity to be the official Religion of Rome. If you mosey around the Apocrypha and other such abominable texts, or just read the New Testament with an open mind, imagining yourself into the period when its events occurred, you will find accounts which are altered less.))
I sometimes wonder what Jesus would have to say about the things that have been done in His name. Would He be comfortable with our actions, both individual and collective, do you think?
"Love thy enemy as thy friend, forgo the passing of judgments, love thy neighbor, it is harder for a rich man, etc...," what would He think of the bombing, the hunger, the inequality, the looking-away, the executions, the despoilments, the carrying of money into His temple, the greed, the desire? What would He make of those who do not help the sick not because they cannot but because of politics, because a box carrying a simulacrum of movement by means of a sequence of moving idols tells them what to think and do? The materialism, the gluttony, the covetousness and cruelty: what would He have to say about these things? Can anyone tell me? Seriously, I would love to know.
I think He loved to know, too, though I fear that He too - were He living as we live -, might be seduced by the bright lights and the shopping, or be too busy with the day job, or have a show to watch on the television, or be otherwise too busy to give it much thought; if not, though, I wonder what He'd say.
