Neville Goddard on Mark 2:9-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Mark 2 in context

Scripture Focus

9Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?

10But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)

Mark 2:9-10

Biblical Context

In Mark 2:9-10, the scene contrasts saying 'your sins are forgiven' with 'rise and walk,' showing that both forgiveness and healing spring from an inner authority within you. The inner power of the I AM makes possible both revelation.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the present moment, the narrative asks you to test the inner truth: forgiveness and healing are not separate acts performed by God from on high, but two faces of the same inner-state. The Son of Man represents the living I AM within you, the conscious power that declares, 'I am forgiven' and thereby dissolves guilt, just as it empowers the paralytic to rise. When you affirm forgiveness as an already completed fact in your mind, you align your body's energy and your life’s circumstances to that truth. The paralysis of past guilt loosens as you accept your state of grace; the outward gesture of healing becomes a symbolic movement of the inner revision. The passage teaches that the authority you seek resides in your own consciousness: to forgive is to free, to free is to heal. That is the seamless unity of word and deed—the inner decree made manifest in outer form.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling of being forgiven here and now; revise any memory of guilt and imagine yourself stepping from the bed, rising in new life, confident that I AM is your standing reality.