Neville Goddard on Matthew 27:1-2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 27 in context

Scripture Focus

1When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

2And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

Matthew 27:1-2

Biblical Context

The chief priests and elders plot to kill Jesus, bind him, and deliver him to Pilate. The scene dramatizes how beliefs can imprison awareness, even as consciousness seeks release.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Matthew 27:1–2 the inner self gathers its priests and elders, those beliefs that would bind a desired outcome. They bind Jesus—the living sense of I AM—and hand him over to the governor of appearances, Pontius Pilate. In Neville's language, the chief priests are your persistent thoughts, the elders your habits of judgment, conspiring to fix a fate by external law. Jesus represents your innate awareness, the awakened I AM that cannot be truly killed. When the inner council acts, you experience a scene of seeming inevitability: a decision, a binding, a delivery to outer authority. Yet the page is telling you a secret: the power to arrest and to release rests in your own consciousness. If you dwell in the state of I AM, you can revise the scene from a death dealing conspiracy to a consummation of freedom. The governor is not an external judge but the inner alignment of your awareness with truth. By affirming and feeling as real your unity with the divine, you dissolve the need for outcomes dictated by old beliefs.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, breathe into the I AM; revise the scene by saying, I release the old beliefs that bind me and deliver my awareness into the governor within me. Feel the release as real.