Neville Goddard on Luke 12:58-59 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Luke 12 in context

Scripture Focus

58When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

59I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.

Luke 12:58-59

Biblical Context

Luke 12:58-59 portrays an encounter with an adversary before a magistrate, urging swift inner settlement so you may be released rather than cast into prison until the debt is paid.

Neville's Inner Vision

Luke 12:58-59 invites you into an inner courtroom where the adversary is a state of consciousness, not a person. The magistrate, the judge, and the officer symbolize inner laws of resistance and judgment pressing upon your awareness. To be delivered from them is to realize you stand under the I AM, not under fear. The prison you fear is merely a belief that separation is real; the mite represents tiny beliefs you still cling to—guilt, blame, debt—until you relinquish them by alignment with divine law. The instruction is not for outward compliance but for an inner decision: assume you have already reconciled with the inner judge; revise any thought that keeps you bound; feel it-real that you are free and that your debt is paid by the light of your consciousness. When you operate from that awareness, the imagined chain dissolves and you walk free, not because of external permission, but because you have affirmed your oneness with the I AM.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, assume you have already settled your inner court. Feel the release and say, 'I am reconciled; I owe nothing to the inner judge.' Then visualize stepping from the courtroom into light.