Neville Goddard on Matthew 4:23-25 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 4 in context

Scripture Focus

23And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

24And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

25And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.

Matthew 4:23-25

Biblical Context

Jesus moves through Galilee, teaching in synagogues, proclaiming the kingdom, and healing every sickness. Large crowds follow from many regions as word of him spreads.

Neville's Inner Vision

All the events in Matthew 4:23-25 are not external acts apart from you, but echoes of a state of consciousness awakening. The kingdom is not a distant land but the I AM waking within you, the constant awareness through which teaching, preaching, and healing flow. When Jesus teaches and heals, he is the inner mood rising into light, lifting the fear and limitation that call sickness into form. As your attention rests on this inner state, the fears, torments, and doubts are seen as translations of a false self, dissolving in the radiance of the kingdom. The great multitudes who follow become the many facets of your own mind drawn to the realization 'I am consciousness, I am the kingdom.' The external healing and gathering are simply the outward sign of an inward verdict: I am the kingdom, and the kingdom is within me, now.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume, 'I am within the kingdom now.' Stay with the felt sense of health and wholeness until it becomes your predominant awareness, then move with the conviction that this inner state is shaping your outer experience.