Neville Goddard on Matthew 14:13-21 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 14 in context

Scripture Focus

13When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.

14And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.

15And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.

16But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.

17And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.

18He said, Bring them hither to me.

19And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

20And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.

21And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.

Matthew 14:13-21

Biblical Context

Jesus withdraws to a desert place, sees the crowd with compassion, and miraculously feeds them with five loaves and two fishes, leaving leftovers. The event culminates in all being nourished and the crowd dispersed with baskets of abundance.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM, the desert place is your mind set apart from habit and fear. The multitude is the sum of your unexpressed hunger, the needs that press upon your awareness. Compassion in the story is the awakened attention that refuses separation between you and your world; it is the state of inner listening that invites wholeness. The miracle unfolds not through external action alone but through your act of inner assent: wake up to the truth that you are the one who blesses and distributes. When Jesus asks the disciples to feed the crowd, he is inviting your own mind to participate with its present supply—the five loaves and two fish are the tiny resources you currently accept as enough. By bringing them to me (to your I AM) and looking to heaven, you bless them and release them to consciousness, and what emerges is abundance: the crowd is fed, the leftovers become twelve baskets. This is providence in action within your consciousness, a redemptive shift from mourning to ministry as you trust the inner order.

Practice This Now

Practice: sit quietly and declare, 'I feed the multitudes within me with the little I have.' See the five loaves and two fish multiplying into abundance; feel the relief and fullness as if it already happened.