Neville Goddard on Luke 4:2-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Luke 4 in context

Scripture Focus

2Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

3And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

4And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

Luke 4:2-4

Biblical Context

Jesus fasts forty days and resists the temptation to turn stones into bread, insisting that life comes from the word of God, not from physical food.

Neville's Inner Vision

Luke 4:2-4 invites us to notice that the true feeding of man is not the body's appetite but the awareness in which the 'bread' question is answered. The forty days of fasting are not a deprivation, but a turning of attention inward to the I AM, the unchanging Word within. The tempter's request: make this stone bread, is the old belief that hunger is reality independent of consciousness. Jesus answers from the state of knowing, not from the senses: It is written that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. In Neville's terms, that 'word' is the living idea you hold about yourself. When you cease trying to satisfy outer lacks with external favors and instead align with the inner word, the eternal possibility of your true self, you discover you are sustained by the Word you have chosen to inhabit. The temptation dissolves as you realize the I AM is the source of your nourishment and your identity.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly and assume the state of complete nourishment from the inner Word; feel the I AM sustaining you, and revise any sense of lack into fullness as if you are already fed by God’s word.