Neville Goddard on Luke 4:40 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Luke 4 in context

Scripture Focus

40Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

Luke 4:40

Biblical Context

As the sun sets, all who are sick bring themselves to Jesus, who lays hands on each and heals them.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this scene, the sunset marks the turning of attention from limitation to the light of awareness. Jesus represents the I AM within you—the steady, unconditioned awareness that heals. The divers diseases are not separate afflictions but varied states of a single false belief. When these states are brought to the Presence’s hands, they yield to awareness and release their grip. Healing arises not from an external power but from your decision to identify with health as already real. The setting sun signals a shift from old thought to a new day of consciousness; you affirm, I am, and let that truth permeate every facet of experience. In Neville’s language, imagination is the instrument by which this reality is felt into being; the more you feel the health as present, the more the state changes. By undivided attention and compassionate feeling, your I AM touches every state until body and life respond in harmony. The miracle is interior: the recognition of a health-filled reality that has always been yours.

Practice This Now

At sunset, close your eyes, place your hand on your chest, and repeat, 'I am health; I am the I AM.' Hold that feeling until it rests as your immediate reality, then imagine the body bathed in light, every state of sickness dissolved.