Neville Goddard on Luke 9:59-60 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Luke 9 in context

Scripture Focus

59And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

60Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

Luke 9:59-60

Biblical Context

Jesus calls a man to follow him, but the man asks to bury his father first. Jesus answers that the kingdom work must begin now, not after the past is resolved.

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice the second call in Luke 9:59–60: the voice inviting you to follow now. The would-be follower speaks of burying his father, but the insistence is not about a corpse; it is about clinging to the old life, to the belief that life begins after some future event. Jesus answers that the dead bury their dead, shifting your attention from the outer world to the inner act of being. The Kingdom of God is at hand not in some distant time, but in the awakening of consciousness that you are, I AM. To follow is to align with that inner impulse immediately, letting old identities die so the new self may live in action. Your preaching of the kingdom is your living demonstration of that consciousness—daily choices, thoughts, and feeling-tones embodied as reality. If you accept this inward commission, your world will rearrange to reflect the kingdom you already possess.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes, place your hand on your heart, and revise the scene by declaring I AM the Kingdom now until you feel it real. Then act from that certainty in the next moment.