Neville Goddard on Mark 11:12-19 - 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.

15And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;

16And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.

17And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

18And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.

19And when even was come, he went out of the city.

Mark 11:12-19

Biblical Context

Jesus curses a fig tree that shows leaves but bears no fruit, then cleanses the temple of merchants and declares it a house of prayer. The passage exposes inner pretense and the call to genuine worship.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you the narrative is a map of consciousness. The fig tree is not a literal plant but a state that looks fulfilled from afar—leaves indicating form, yet fruit absent. Your hunger in the text is your inner desire for reality, and when you fix attention on the leaves rather than the fruit, you prove you are clinging to appearances. Your imagination shapes what you call reality; by dwelling in appearance you feed the illusion. The cursing of the tree is your decision to withdraw belief from any inner condition that pretends satisfaction while starving the soul. The temple cleansing is the purification of your mind from the commerce of images—thoughts, judgments, and fears—that barter for ease rather than truth. Your inner temple becomes a house of prayer when you consent that awareness alone is God’s dwelling. The scribes and priests are your old self's defenses, trembling before your awakening, while the people's astonishment mirrors the new self’s dawning presence. As evening comes, you step back into quiet awareness, letting the old city dissolve in the light of I AM consciousness.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and enter your inner temple; declare I AM here as the presence of God, and revise any sense of lack by affirming that true fruit comes from inner worship, not outward show. Feel it real by breathing slowly as you rest in that awareness.