Neville Goddard on Mark 12:18-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Mark 12 in context

Scripture Focus

18Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,

19Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

20Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

21And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.

22And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.

23In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.

Mark 12:18-23

Biblical Context

The Sadducees present a hypothetical, seven-brother marriage to challenge Jesus on resurrection and marriage; they assume earthly law will govern life after death. Their puzzle reveals a mind fixated on how life should repeat itself after death.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the Sadducees’ riddle as a symbol of a mind clinging to old rules. In the I AM that you are, boundaries of spouse and marriage are only the dream of a waking state. The seven brothers are seven old vestibules of a thought that life must replay the same contract in the next room. But resurrection is inner life: when you turn your attention to the awareness that perceives the drama, the scene dissolves into presence. You are not summoned to pick a winner among past partners; you are drawn into a moment where form yields to formlessness, where you are 'as the angels in heaven'—not bound by earthly marriage. The new life is the realization that your identity is the I AM, timeless and unbound by former relationships, which means every longing is satisfied by the one Presence within you.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and revise one current relationship scenario by affirming, 'In the resurrection I am the I AM—whole, unbound by past roles.' Then, feel the reality of this new state.