Risen Christ Within Matthew 14:1-2

Neville's Inner Vision

In this passage, the fame of Jesus is the sign of the Christ within you, and Herod’s verdict—'This is John the Baptist risen'—is the old self clinging to a familiar identity. John the Baptist represents preparation and the longing for truth; his 'rising from the dead' is the revival of a dead belief. The true interpretation is that the Christ within you is alive now, and miracles are the natural fruit of that awareness, not a physical resurrection of an old figure. When you understand that you are not the outer scene but the I AM perceiving it, you stop chasing shadows and begin expressing life in forms governed by truth. The 'mighty works' become evidence of a renewed inner state: a mind that has ceased to mistake the image for reality and has chosen the reality of consciousness. So revise the scene: identify with the risen Christ within, and imagine that this inner life is the source of all demonstration in your world.