Neville Goddard on Mark 2:15-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Mark 2 in context

Scripture Focus

15And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.

16And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?

17When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Mark 2:15-17

Biblical Context

Jesus sits with publicans and sinners; the Pharisees complain. He says the healthy have no need of a physician, and that he came to call sinners to repentance.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the meal is a symbol of your inner companionship. The publicans and sinners are the hidden chapters of you—the desires judged, the wounds ignored, the impulses you have tried to exile. The scribes and Pharisees are the part of you that judges and excludes, a voice that says some parts are not worthy of the table. Jesus, the I AM, sits and eats with every part, saying implicitly, You belong, you are not separate from me. The physician within is not a person outside you but your own awareness that heals by bringing all aspects into conscious fellowship. The call to repentance is not about punishment but a turning of attention—conscious recognition that the self you are and the self you count as 'sinner' are the same life, the same I AM. When you assume the healing presence, you’re not fixing through effort but through recognition, and the sickness dissolves into wholeness.