Neville Goddard on Matthew 16:9-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 16 in context

Scripture Focus

9Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

10Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

11How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

12Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Matthew 16:9-12

Biblical Context

Jesus reminds the disciples that the warning concerns the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees, not literal bread; the real issue is the inner doctrine guiding their understanding.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your world is a dream of consciousness; the loaves are memories and thoughts that feed your sense of self, the baskets your received outcomes. The warning about leaven is to awaken you from treating any doctrine as 'bread' feeding you. The Pharisees' and Sadducees' leaven is a pattern of belief—rituals, judgments, and fear—that you carry in consciousness. When you fix your attention on external foods or teachers, you miss the living reality: I AM, the inner awareness that imagines and sustains all. The revocation of that inner pattern—choosing a higher interpretation where 'I am fed by the living I AM'—releases resistance and dissolves lack. The miracle promised in this passage is the awakening of discernment: you realize that the kingdom is within and your inner state creates outer appearances.

Practice This Now

In stillness, revise your inner assumption: 'I am fed by the living I AM; external appearances arise from my inner doctrine.' Sit with that feel-it-real until the new sense of discernment settles.