Neville Goddard on Matthew 20:1-2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 20 in context

Scripture Focus

1For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

2And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:1-2

Biblical Context

The parable presents a householder who hires laborers at dawn for a penny a day and sends them to work in his vineyard.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the kingdom of heaven is the state of awareness that acknowledges I AM. The householder is your higher self, the commanding presence that calls forth laborers—the aspects of your mind eager to awaken to life in consciousness. When the morning is compared to the moment you first decide you are now the person you desire to be, you settle the penny of a day’s wage as the fixed standard of life you are willing to accept from the I AM. The agreement for a penny means you choose a single measure of sufficiency—the recognition that your value in God is not earned by effort but revealed by consciousness already possessed. As each laborer is sent to the vineyard, you step into action from the vision of your being. The last hours or the first do not change the wage; in God, all receive the same reality when you align your inner state. The parable invites you to relinquish postures of lack and rivalry, and rest in the conviction that you are already paid, here and now, by the I AM that you are.