Neville Goddard on Matthew 22:23-28 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 22 in context

Scripture Focus

23The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,

24Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:

26Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.

27And last of all the woman died also.

28Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.

Matthew 22:23-28

Biblical Context

Sadducees deny resurrection and present a levirate marriage puzzle with seven brothers and a widow; the question asks whose wife she will be in the resurrection, exposing their dependence on earthly law.

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the seven brothers as successive states of your own mind clinging to a rule-bound life. The widow represents the single life force moving through these states, seeking to secure continuity by marrying each masculine form. Their question to Jesus reveals not a concern about history but a habit of treating life as possession and repetition. In Neville’s language, resurrection is not a future event in a tomb but the renewal of consciousness here and now. The mind awakens when it stops trying to fix life through laws and lineage and recognizes the one I AM behind all experiences. When you identify with a single external identity—wife, husband, or name—you confine life to a cycle of necessity. The real question is: what is the posture of awareness in which you live? If you assume the awareness that exists beyond birth and death, you no longer need to solve worldly puzzles; you become the very one who creates the life you call future. So the resurrection is a present establishment of a new state of consciousness.

Practice This Now

Assume the state of resurrection now. In quiet, close your eyes and say: I AM the life that renews itself this moment; revise one limiting belief about the future and feel it real.