Neville Goddard on Mark 15:42-47 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

42And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

43Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

44And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.

45And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.

46And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.

47And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.

Mark 15:42-47

Biblical Context

Joseph of Arimathaea asks Pilate for Jesus’ body and places Him in a rock tomb; Marys witness the burial, marking the end of one pattern and the opening toward a silent inner shift.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this drama, Joseph represents the I AM in you—the steadfast inner state that waits for the Kingdom of God and acts when the inner command is clear. Pilate and the centurion are the outer voices of your life, confirming the death of the old story. The linen cloths are the purified vessels of your current consciousness; the tomb hewn from rock is the solid inner ground of stillness where old appearances cannot arise. When the stone is rolled, it seals a former identification, making space for a newer version of you to awaken. Mary Magdalene and Mary are memory and longing, witnesses to the shift now taking place in your being. Seen this way, burial becomes birth: the Kingdom of God is not somewhere out there but a treasure within, opened by your decisive inner act. Faith, in this light, is trust in your own inward movement—the certainty that the old pattern has been laid to rest and a new state, imagined and felt, is now real.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and proclaim: I am the I AM; I lay the old self in a tomb of inner stillness and roll the stone to seal it. Then imagine awakening to the Kingdom within and feel the new state as real.