Neville Goddard on Acts 25:22-27 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 25 in context

Scripture Focus

22Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.

23And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.

24And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

25But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.

26Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.

27For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.

Acts 25:22-27

Biblical Context

Festus plans a royal hearing for Paul, Agrippa and Bernice arrive, and Festus admits Paul is not worthy of death; Paul appeals to Caesar, seeking a written record of charges.

Neville's Inner Vision

Acts 25:22–27 unfolds as a drama of consciousness. The royal entrance and the pomp are your inner dignities and distractions, parading before the hearing that you, not the world, hold. Paul stands for your imagination—the I AM awake within, insisting that life is alive with possibility, not doomed by popular verdicts. Festus’s insistence that it is unreasonable to send a prisoner without stating the crimes is a reminder that your inner court seeks a precise charge before it can act. When Paul appeals to Augustus, he is inviting the higher sovereignty of your being—the I AM, the Caesar within—to take notice and to write the outcome from a higher vantage. The plan to send him to write something mirrors the soul's desire to document its truth in the outer world. The entire scene invites you to examine the movements of your own consciousness, to affirm what is just, true, and life-affirming, and to trust that the inner examination will render an outward sign consistent with your inward state.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume you are already acquitted by your inner king; feel the relief as if the charge never existed. Revise the scene by declaring, 'I am free, I am justified, I am loved,' and let that feeling carry you through the outer days.