Neville Goddard on Acts 22:4-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 22 in context

Scripture Focus

4And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

5As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

Acts 22:4-5

Biblical Context

Paul recounts his prior zeal in persecuting this way, binding men and women and delivering them to prison, with the high priest bearing witness and letters driving him toward Damascus to imprison more.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through a Neville lens, the scene is an inner drama. The zeal to persecute is a stubborn state of mind resisting new truth, a posture that uses law and external authority to bind and punish. The death spoken of is the old self dying so the living I AM may awaken. Binding and delivering into prisons mirrors how you imprison a thought or feeling with fixed rules and fear of mercy. The high priest and elders symbolize social beliefs that justify control, while the letters to the brethren resemble rigid assumptions that legitimize punishment in the mind. The Damascus journey is the restless ego pushing outward to force others to fit its plan. Yet the inner governor, the I AM, stands ready to interrupt this drama. When you revise and assume a new state, persecution fades and you enter a life of unity. Feel the truth here and now, and allow thoughts and events to move in harmony with divine Life.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise a recent moment of judgment by declaring I AM the ruler of my mind. Feel the unity of Truth now as you release the old zeal and invite the I AM to govern.