Neville Goddard on Matthew 22:29-32 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 22 in context

Scripture Focus

29Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

30For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

31But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,

32I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

Matthew 22:29-32

Biblical Context

Jesus says they err because they do not know the scriptures or the power of God. He asserts that in the resurrection life continues and that God is the God of the living.

Neville's Inner Vision

Be aware that the I AM you are is not a relic of the past but the living presence here and now. When Jesus says you err for not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God, he invites you to stop treating Scripture as a rule book and to feel its force in your own consciousness. The resurrection is not a distant event but the awakening that your inner life continues beyond the appearances of mortal form; you are not bound by marriage, nor by any outward structure, but are like the angels—fluid, free, and alive in Spirit. The clause 'I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob' proclaims that the God who spoke to them is the same I AM within you today. God is not the God of the dead but of the living because life is a continuous act of awareness. Your present assumption—your imagined feeling—creates the conditions you call reality. If you identify with living consciousness, you enter the kingdom now.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, place a hand on your chest, and declare inwardly, "I am the I AM, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, living now within me." Then revise any sense of separation by feeling the present life as my constant reality.