Neville Goddard on Luke 20:45-47 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Luke 20 in context

Scripture Focus

45Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples,

46Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;

47Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

Luke 20:45-47

Biblical Context

Jesus cautions the crowd to beware the scribes who parade status with long robes and public prayers. Their self-serving displays harm the vulnerable and invite inner judgment.

Neville's Inner Vision

The passage invites a Neville Goddard-style inward interpretation: the scribes are not only men in robes but inner mind-sets—pride, vanity, and the craving for social applause—that you harbor as long as you value appearances over truth. When you yearn for the highest seats and the grandest feasts, you seat the ego on the throne of God, pushing the true I AM into the background. 'Devouring widows' houses' speaks to draining life from others to sustain an inflated self-image; the inner life becomes a ledger of status rather than a temple of awareness. The remedy is inner reform: acknowledge the I AM as the sole reality, and recognize robes and prayers as symbolic forms, not the essence. If you revise your sense of self to rest in that single consciousness, the urge to perform dissolves, inner judgment softens, and sincere worship emerges from quiet presence rather than display.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the feeling, 'I AM that I AM,' as the sole reality. Dwell in that inner awareness until outer displays lose their grip and true worship arises from within.