Neville Goddard on Matthew 9:12-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 9 in context

Scripture Focus

12But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

13But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Matthew 9:12-13

Biblical Context

Jesus contrasts those who feel well with those who feel spiritually sick, and declares that mercy, not sacrifice, is the true path; he came to call sinners to repentance.

Neville's Inner Vision

To hear 'they that are whole need not a physician' is to hear the condition of the mind that already believes it is complete. Yet the call is to the 'sick' within—the thoughts, memories, and fears that contract your sense of self. The physician is not an external rite but your I AM awareness, the tenderness that attends every feeling with conscious attention. 'I will have mercy, and not sacrifice' means mercy as the active policy of consciousness: choose compassion over ritual form, choose to feel your oneness rather than prove it. Christ does not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance—a turning back to your true center, not a change of belief from dogma, but a revision of what you imagine yourself to be. If you revise to feel the reality of mercy now, you move from a state of separation into alignment with God’s living presence. As you dwell in mercy, the sick parts of you soften; healing and restoration become your immediate experience, here and now, within your own consciousness.