Neville Goddard on Matthew 22:34-36 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 22 in context

Scripture Focus

34But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.

35Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

36Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

Matthew 22:34-36

Biblical Context

In Matthew 22:34-36, a learned lawyer tests Jesus by asking for the greatest commandment in the law. The exchange centers on a single rule that binds all others.

Neville's Inner Vision

Suppose the apparent 'great commandment' is not a rule to be learned from a book but a state of consciousness you enter. The lawyer's question is the mind's noise, testing whether law can bind a divided heart. Jesus points beyond syllables to the unity that underwrites all law: to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind is to align your entire awareness with the I AM, the eternal presence that you are. To love your neighbor as yourself is to recognize that the outer world is a mirror of your inner state, and what you practice toward another is the practice you offer to your own feeling of selfhood. When you dwell in that unity, the separation between commandment and life dissolves; obedience becomes effortless because every thought and action springs from the same, single consciousness. The true law is not a list but a living vibration of love issuing from the I AM, the mind that fully accepts this truth fulfills the entire Law at once.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly and assume you are already in unity with the I AM; repeat I AM loving God and loving my neighbor now until that feeling of oneness fills your entire being. Let the sense of wholeness dissolve any sense of separation.