Neville Goddard on Matthew 20:11-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 20 in context

Scripture Focus

11And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,

12Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

Matthew 20:11-12

Biblical Context

The verse shows workers murmuring at the landowner about fairness, complaining that those who labored little should not be paid the same as those who labored all day.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner vineyard is a state of consciousness. The goodman of the house stands for the I AM, the awareness that dispenses gifts not by hours of toil but by grace. The last workers who toiled only an hour point to awakening late in the day of your life, yet their wage is the same because mercy is not earned by length of effort. To murmur at this is to resist the truth that the owner can bless at will. The I AM may give as it pleases, and you are free to claim that mercy now. See that every moment of consciousness can blaze with abundance and invite the same mercy into every part of you. By fixing your attention on the I AM and assuming the state of universal benevolence, you revise your perception until your reality reflects grace freely given, not earned.

Practice This Now

Assume the I AM as the landowner and feel that grace is already given to all. Revise any murmuring by choosing to see every person as already paid in full by divine awareness, and dwell in that reality.