Neville Goddard on Acts 2:12-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 2 in context

Scripture Focus

12And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?

13Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

Acts 2:12-13

Biblical Context

The verse shows a crowd split between awe and doubt: some are astonished and seek meaning, while others mock the experience as drunkenness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Acts 2:12-13 unfolds the inner weather of a waking mind. Neville would say the amazement and the mockery are not events happening to you from outside, but movements of your own consciousness as it encounters a new state. The crowd's 'What meaneth this?' is your inner question when the I AM stands at the door of your awareness. The accusation that these men are 'full of new wine' is the mind clinging to old labels, resisting a fresh energy trying to express through your symbols. The miracle is not a miracle separate from you; it is your imagination becoming real. By assuming you are the I AM, the Presence behind every appearance, you seed a state in which words, tongues, and signs are simply the outer grammar of an inward awakening. When you dwell in that state long enough, the meaning you seek arises from within rather than being imposed from without. Your waking is the act of inner alignment, and all external doubt dissolves as you rest in the truth that you are the source of the new life you perceive.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the feeling of I AM as your constant state; revise any doubt into quiet certainty that this moment is the proof of your inner Pentecost. Then sit in that feeling for a minute, letting awe replace suspicion until your inner 'what meaneth this' becomes the resident meaning of your life.