[MarDav]

Jesus is portrayed throughout the Gospels expressing all the fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance). He does so to perfection. These are what so endear Him to those that follow Him. The fact that the Scriptures nowhere record His laughing with His disciples is something that, quite frankly, disappears from the radar when you consider His purpose for coming. In the end, His followers rejoice that "The Son of God loved me and gave Himself for me," and care very little that He failed to demonstrate a divine sense of humor or laughed at one of Peter's jokes.

[RobbyS]

Given that the heart of each Gospel is the passion and that what comes before is essentially prologue to the events of "Holy Week," it is not surprising that the tone of each is quite serious. Mel Gibson was criticized for not presenting the "whole life" of Christ, but if one looks at the Gospels as a literary form, it is obvious that it was the Passion that dominate the story. Every earlier event looks forward to the climatic ones from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday.