Neville Goddard on Mark 15:33-39 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Mark 15 in context

Scripture Focus

33And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

34And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

35And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.

36And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.

37And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.

38And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.

39And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.

Mark 15:33-39

Biblical Context

In Mark 15:33-39, darkness covers the land as Jesus suffers and cries out. The temple veil tears, and a centurion declares him the Son of God.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the scene as a mirror of your own inner night: the three hours of darkness signify a period when the ego loses its hold and the mind feels abandoned. Yet in that not-enough, the I AM remains untouched, and the cry Eloi becomes a whisper of your innermost longing for wholeness. The cry expresses the mind’s impulse to know the Source in the midst of pain, not a true separation but a drama of belief. When the veil is rent in the temple, you are reminded that access to the divine is not external but inside your own consciousness—the barrier is belief dissolving, the room of awareness opening. The centurion’s verdict, Truly this man was the Son of God, is your inner witness acknowledging the Christ within you—your own affirmed innocence and unity. The crucifixion, the crying, the tearing veil all point to a single fact: your present awareness, the I AM, is the salvation that redeems all appearances. Suffering and trials dissolve as you assume the state of realized oneness.

Practice This Now

Assume right now that you are already reconciled and whole. Feel the I AM as your present reality, revise any feeling of abandonment, and witness the veil between you and God dissolve in your imagination.