Neville Goddard on Matthew 21:33-41 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 21 in context

Scripture Focus

33Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:

34And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.

35And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

36Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.

37But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.

38But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.

39And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.

40When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

41They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

Matthew 21:33-41

Biblical Context

Jesus tells of a vineyard owner who sends servants and then his son. The tenants beat the servants and kill the son, illustrating how inner rejection of truth disrupts the covenant of the heart.

Neville's Inner Vision

Remember: these parables are states of consciousness, not histories. The householder is the I AM within you; the vineyard is your field of awareness, prepared for fruit. The hedges and tower symbolize the habits and judgments you build to shield the mind from the truth. The servants are the messages of truth that arise to awaken you; the son is the higher self, the living awareness of your true kingly nature. When the tenants kill the son, that is the mind resisting the inner call to become one with the Father, mistaking inheritable identity for possession of the old story. The question the Lord asks is, what will be done to those who resist? He will destroy the resistance and entrust the vineyard to those who will render fruits in their seasons—the inner signs that the kingdom is established within. Your practice is to let the higher state replace the old one, and to feel the reality of sonship here and now, producing peace, abundance, and love as evidence of the kingdom.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume the state of the Son within your inner vineyard—feel the I AM acknowledging the harvest as yours, and silently declare, 'I am the fruit-bearing heir, and the kingdom is now'.