Neville Goddard on Matthew 27:45-49 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 27 in context

Scripture Focus

45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

46And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

47Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.

48And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

49The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.

Matthew 27:45-49

Biblical Context

From the sixth hour to the ninth, darkness covered the land; Jesus cried out to God in a moment of felt abandonment, while onlookers misread him and offered vinegar, waiting to see if Elijah would come to save him.

Neville's Inner Vision

See the scene as an inner drama. The darkness is your moment of forgetting who you are; the cry is the call of the self to remember the I AM. The crowd’s chatter mirrors your habit of looking for a future savior, while the vinegar is the bitter taste of old beliefs that pretend to nourish you. In Neville’s practice, these are inner movements you can revise by assuming the truth of your I AM presence. When you decide, in feeling, that you are the I AM, the scene shifts: darkness becomes a field of possibility, abandonment dissolves into the realization that there is no separation from God. The figure at the cross is your own I AM, always present; the crucifixion becomes a rite of reclaiming awareness, and you awaken to God as your consciousness, here and now.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, breathe deeply, and declare I AM as your living reality; revise the scene by feeling that you are always in the embrace of your divine presence here and now.