Neville Goddard on Mark 12:18-27 - 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.

24And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

25For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

26And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

27He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

Mark 12:18-27

Biblical Context

The Sadducees' challenge about marriage is answered by Jesus as a lesson in resurrection: life beyond death is a transformation of consciousness, not a legal puzzle. God is the living I AM, not the memory of the dead.

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the scene as a mirror of your own state. The Sadducees are the portion of your mind that insists on literal forms and denies the living presence beyond them. They ask a riddle about seven brothers and a wife, as if life could be reduced to a chart. Jesus answers with the power of scripture and the reality of God: in the resurrection there is no marrying or giving in marriage, for the life you awaken to is like the angels, eternal and unbound by old relationships. Yet the core message is more personal than anthropology; the God Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob spoke of is the I AM within you—the living awareness that never dies. This is not a historical claim but a declaration of your present state: your consciousness is the God of the living here and now. When you accept this, death and old forms lose their claim, and every relationship becomes a fresh manifestation of life.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and repeat, I am the God of the living, NOW. Feel the living presence filling every moment, and revise any belief that you are bound to a past form.