Matthew 22:29 · World English Bible
Matthew 22:29 Meaning But Jesus Answered Them
But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
What does Matthew 22:29 mean?
The reasoning mind that argues only from the plane of flesh goes astray because it has read the sacred writings as outward history and never opened their inner sense. To not know the scriptures is to miss that these words are a map of the body and consciousness, not a chronicle of dead events.
From the Esoteric reading below.
Matthew 22:29 through 1 lens
The same verse, read by one tradition.
Esoteric
ESOTERIC
Esoteric
The reasoning mind that argues only from the plane of flesh goes astray because it has read the sacred writings as outward history and never opened their inner sense. To not know the scriptures is to miss that these words are a map of the body and consciousness, not a chronicle of dead events. To not know the power of God is to be blind to the living force within a person that raises the self above the round of mortal states.
The error is the whole error of literalism. The lower intellect handles the coded text as if it recorded only past marriages and deaths, and so it cannot see the indwelling energy that lifts awareness beyond the earthly cycle it keeps reasoning inside of.
Esoteric lensGo deeper in the app
Esoteric lens
Live Matthew 22:29 today
- Read one short thing slowly today, a few lines you already know, and ask what it is saying about you right now rather than what it means in general. Stay with it until something shifts, even slightly.
- When someone tells you something today, resist filing it under what you already believe. Ask them one real question instead of giving them your take.
- In a disagreement today, catch the moment you start defending the exact wording instead of looking at the thing itself. Let the wording go and look again.
Where have you settled for knowing about something instead of knowing it?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon, and arguing about the finger is how people spend a lifetime looking down. Words are directions, not destinations.
Taoism · Chuang Tzu
Once the fish is caught the net can be set aside, and once the meaning is understood the words can be. Clutching the words is keeping the net and losing the fish.
Judaism · the Hasidic masters
A teaching read only for its facts stays outside you, while a teaching read as being about you starts to do its work. The letters are the same, the reader is not.
Free · No account needed
Read all of Matthew 22 through 17 lenses
Lensightful opens every verse of the Bible through the traditions you choose. Save readings, ask a follow-up question, and get one verse a day.
Get Lensightful on the App Store