Neville Goddard on Luke 5:29-32 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

29And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.

30But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

31And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.

32I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Luke 5:29-32

Biblical Context

Levi hosts a great feast with publicans and others; the scribes murmur, while Jesus proclaims that the healthy have no need of a physician. He came for sinners to repentance.

Neville's Inner Vision

These verses unfold as an inner drama. Levi’s feast is the feast of consciousness where every part of me—the tax collectors and the sinners—are invited into the space of awareness. The murmuring scribes are the doubts of the old self, the habit of measuring worth by externals. When Jesus says the healthy don’t need a physician, I hear the truth: in the I AM there is no lack, no separation, only a present wellness that heals by perception. The call to repentance becomes a turning of my attention toward grace. I am not asked to become someone else; I am invited to realize I am already loved by the I AM, and this realization dissolves sickness and judgment. The feast is my inner congress; mercy flows as I acknowledge every part as included in the divine banquet.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine Levi’s feast in your own room; invite the parts you call 'sinners' and 'tax collectors' to sit with you at the table of I AM; feel yourself accepted and let the belief 'I am unworthy' revise to 'I am the I AM, and grace is mine now'.