So, I don't know how to start this thread. The idea I'm trying to capture is somewhere in there in my subconscious but I haven't found the words for it since yesterday afternoon. I still haven't, so maybe if I start, they will come. Bear with me.

"No good deed goes unpunished."

That was the tweet that started the thought.

One of my followers responded with that on my thread yesterday so I started thinking. Surely that can't be true.

"No good deed goes unpunished?"

Definitely not true.

But...

Think about it. And this doesn't matter if you're a Christian or a Muslim.

Think about the death of Jesus Christ. I know muslims have their name for him, I can't remember what it is in English.

Doesn't matter if you think he's the son of God or just one of the messengers.

Think about the death of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ represented what was good.

Jesus is the archetype of goodness.

A lot of people read the Bible either as a spiritual instruction or just as a story book. But I believe the messages in the Bible have deeper implications

and deeper meanings if we pay attention to what message a particular story is trying to pass as it relates to the people the Bible was written for. Believers!

Think about this archetype of goodness.

During his time, Jesus Christ was nothing but a good person. It was visible to

everyone.

He healed the sick, the chased out demons, he raised the dead, he fed thousands and thousands, he preached the gospel, he performed wonders, he did miracles...

The net impact of Jesus Christ's life was positive on everyone that came in contact with him.

So there should be no doubt in your mind when I say Jesus was a good person. To us now, he represents an ideal.

An ideal of everything good.

An ideal is an unachievable standard.

So, Jesus is the unachievable standard of good.

Yet, he was crucified!!!

Now, as people who live in this age, we know that was his destiny. We can rationalise his death, the Christians believe he came to die for us. So the happenstance of his death is brushed over.

But not too quick!

The people who lived in the time of Jesus did not know that,

they did not know that was his destiny. They were normal people who lived normal lives, had normal goals, did normal things. They weren't historical figures.

They were just normal people, and yet somehow, this guy who helped everyone he came in contact with, who commited no

crime, who healed the sick, who fed the hungry, who performed wonders.

I mean think about it, think about the woman with the issue of blood. She only touched the hem of his robe and she was healed. You were her neighbour, you know this. Everyone else knows.

He raised the dead, everyone knows. Think of how famous Jesus was and for doing good things. How many loved him, how many he helped, how many he healed, how his parables and teachings would have been like watching Joe Rogan's podcast. Times 100 the views Rogan gets.

So he was a popular good person.

And yet he was crucified!

Think about it. I want to move on from that point.

When they arrested Jesus (on no formal charges), the bible recorded they took him to the Sanhedrin (like the National Assembly) and were looking for testimonies

against him. They had none.

Many bore false witness against him but their words did not agree; so disregarded.

So this good man, he was being tried and they found nothing.

Then the high priest asked him, are you the son of God? And he says, 'I am."

The high priest tore his

clothe and accused him of blasphemy and they took him to Pilate (the Governor).

Pilate knew they had nothing against him, infact when he had the chance to release a prisoner as was the custom in times of celebration. He asked them, should I release Jesus?

But the priests,

who I imagine were in control of the media impressed upon the people to ask the governor to release Barabbas, a murderer instead.

Think about everything you have read.

A murderer, picked over someone who had fed thousands and whom they had no evidence of a single wrong doing

against.

On his way to be crucified, the same people mocked him and spat on him. They said, you claim to have power, release yourself.

The very same people who had witnessed all the good things he had done were convinced a murderer deserved to live instead of him.

That's an interesting preposition!

To even think it could happen. And the implications of that choice to the people living in that time who didn't know he was supposed to die, they were just normal people and they chose a proven murderer over him; the good person.

The same people who he had been good to mocked him.

So I'm thinking, where were the thousands he fed, where was everyone that followed him, the people he healed and their families, the crowd he always had around him, remember some people had to climb the roof of a church to

be able to reach him because the crowd was too much.

Where were all these people? Why didn't they speak up for him. Why didn't they ask Pilate to release him. How was the media able to convince them that a good man deserved to die.

Where were the philosophers, the aristocrats,

those who had a following and could teach their followers the difference between good and evil. Why did they let a good man get crucified?

That's an impossible question to answer. Must have been one incredible mind control organism the priests and judges had.

So that was my thought.

The archetype of good was crucified, so who am I to suggest that good deeds will not indeed get punished.

But the question is, if Jesus could do it again, would he?

I think the answer is yes!

So when you do something good and you're repaid with evil, take solace in the fact that good is good regardless what the crowd says and just like Jesus, it should not stop you from being good.

"Father forgive them."

That should be your guide. Be good person even in the face

of evil.

Speak up for good even when it is unpopular, who knows, you may just be preventing the crucification (figuratively) of a good person.

Don't let the world change you.

Good deeds may get punished but do them anyway.

"Father forgive them."

Olóyè writing to you from the #CouncilofChiefs

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