Neville Goddard on Luke 20:13-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Luke 20 in context

Scripture Focus

13Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.

14But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.

15So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?

16He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

Luke 20:13-16

Biblical Context

The parable shows a landowner sending his beloved son, whom the tenants kill to seize the inheritance; the owner will destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this parable, the lord of the vineyard is your I AM, the constant awareness by which everything appears. The beloved son is the perfect idea you would have manifesting as your life, the signal of truth that the inner world reveres. When the tenants see him, they reason that this is the heir and attempt to kill him—an inner resistance that seeks to keep your familiar conditions intact. Their act is your old fear and doubt resisting the new idea. But the true act of life is not punishment; it is transformation: the lord shall come and destroy these tenants and give the vineyard to others. In consciousness, this means the old structures of lack or limitation are uprooted and a fresh field is opened to the higher idea. The parable declares that your inner state reshapes your outer world. The moment you truly acknowledge the Son as real, you reassign ownership of the field to the higher truth, and abundance follows as a natural expression of consciousness.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine the I AM, the beloved Son, stepping into your inner vineyard as if it were already yours. Resolve any sense of lack by affirming, 'I am the inheritance; the Father’s will is done in me now' and feel it real.