Neville Goddard on Acts 24:6-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 24 in context

Scripture Focus

6Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.

7But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,

8Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.

Acts 24:6-8

Biblical Context

They accuse someone of profaning the temple and would judge him by their law; the chief captain Lysias intervenes and removes the accused, sending the matter to you for examination.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this passage the scene is not merely a legal quarrel, but a portrait of your inner state. The temple is the sanctuary of your awareness, the I AM within. The charge that someone profaned the temple represents a belief that a part of you has been defiled by past thoughts. The group speaking in accusation—“we”—embodies the old, habitual self clinging to its own narrow law. The arrival of Lysias, the officer who takes the accused from their hands, is the intrusion of a higher order of consciousness, a shift of attention that interrupts the old narrative and prevents you from acting on it through outdated judgments. To “examine” the accusers is to scrutinize the thoughts and beliefs you have chosen to defend as truth. The healing occurs not by condemning the story but by realizing that you, the I AM, are the temple and the witness; truth has the authority to reveal itself when you cease clinging to the old verdicts and invite clarity from within.

Practice This Now

Assume the I AM is the governor of the inner temple; revise the scene by acknowledging that the old accusers have no power, and feel-it-real that the truth of your temple is already pure.