One quiet ride left a priest shaken and a nun holding the final word.

Twice she answered his wandering hand with the same mysterious reminder, and twice he pulled away, convinced he had been warned. But when he finally opened his Bible, the joke took a turn he never expected, because the punchline was hiding behind that cryptic scri…

In this fictional joke, a priest offered a nun a lift to her convent. When she settled into the passenger seat, her gown shifted, revealing part of her leg. Distracted, he briefly swerved before regaining control.

A little later, he placed his hand on her leg. Her response was calm: “Father, remember Psalm 129?” He withdrew immediately, embarrassed. When his hand wandered again, she repeated the question.

That was enough to keep his attention firmly on the road for the rest of their journey.

After dropping her off, the priest returned to his church, determined to understand her words. The punchline gives him an invented passage—not an actual verse from Psalm 129: “Go forth and seek; farther up, you will find glory.”

Suddenly, her reminder seemed less like a warning than he had assumed. He closed the book with a sigh: apparently, his scriptural knowledge needed a little more work.