Neville Goddard on Matthew 22:3-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 22 in context

Scripture Focus

3And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.

4Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

5But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

6And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.

Matthew 22:3-6

Biblical Context

The invited ignore and mistreat the servants; the feast is prepared but no one comes, and some go to worldly concerns while others abuse the messengers.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM, the wedding is the expression of your own awareness. The servants are the inner faculties that carry a call from your deeper self; when they are dismissed, you are denying the invitation you have already felt within. The first refusals—going to a farm or to merchandise—represent attachments to outward thoughts, to the small satisfactions of the outer world that pretend to satisfy the being who thirsts for life. The remaining remnant who abuse the messengers reveals fear and prejudice—your mind turning the voice of life into resistance. Yet the host has prepared everything: the dinner, the oxen, the fatlings—your inner abundance ready for you to enter. Do not judge the messengers as if they were external; see them as aspects of your consciousness calling you to awaken. When you accept the invitation in imagination, you authorize the very state that calls it forth. You awaken to the feast because you now inhabit the consciousness that already knows you are worthy of the union.