Neville Goddard on Luke 5:12-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Luke 5 in context

Scripture Focus

12And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

13And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.

14And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

Luke 5:12-14

Biblical Context

A man with leprosy seeks Jesus and is healed; Jesus instructs him to present himself to the priest, signaling outward cleansing as testimony to an inner renewal.

Neville's Inner Vision

Luke 5:12-14 reveals that the leprosy is a symbol of a consciousness that believes itself imperfect or unworthy. The man falls before Jesus and yields to an inner presence—an I AM that can be aware of him as he truly is. When Jesus extends the touch and declares healing, the act represents a decisive inner assumption: that a condition of lack or separation is no longer real to the one whose identity is grounded in the I AM. The words to declare, I will: be thou clean, are not a rite but an inner decree—a revision of belief that the condition is cured by consciousness itself. The instant cleansing illustrates that the state of being, once affirmed, must express itself in outward form. The priestly instruction to present oneself and offer for cleansing becomes an outer testimony of an inward reality, not a cause of it. In Neville's terms, the healing begins in awareness and then shows up in the world as proof. Your true healing is a shift from identifying with lack to identifying with the ever-present purity of your I AM.