Neville Goddard on Mark 11:12-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Mark 11 in context

Scripture Focus

12And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:

13And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.

14And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.

Mark 11:12-14

Biblical Context

Jesus sees a fig tree with leaves but no figs, and curses it, signaling that outward signs without inner nourishment cannot satisfy true hunger. The passage invites you to examine your own inner states and align them with the fruit of God within.

Neville's Inner Vision

Mark 11:12-14 shows the inner drama of your mind. The fig tree is not a vegetable plant but a state of consciousness that wears leaves of appearances yet offers no nourishment to your life. Jesus, hungry as the inner I AM, looks for fruit and finds nothing—so he declares that no one will eat from that belief any longer. The event is not about nature's mood but about your inner economy: what you allow to inform you becomes your experience. Thus the 'curse' is a cutting away of any thought that nourishes lack, a swift reminder that your true supply is in God, the I AM within. The time of figs being not yet is the perfect moment to revise your assumption, to insist that your life is the fruit produced by your deeper consciousness. When you refuse to be fed by limitation and dwell in the awareness that you are the living fruit of God, the outer signs must bend to the inner truth. Your presence with God is the fruit; your present experience testifies to that reality.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and imagine you are the tree that bears fruit. Feel the fruit as real now and declare I am the fruit-bearing consciousness of God, here and now.