Neville Goddard on Acts 25:23-26 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 25 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Acts 25:23-26

Biblical Context

Acts 25:23-26 shows Paul brought before Festus and Agrippa; Festus finds nothing worthy of death and plans to send Paul, after examination, to Augustus.

Neville's Inner Vision

What stands before you in Acts 25:23-26 is not a magistrate’s bench but the inner courtroom of your awareness. Festus represents the rational mind declaring that there is nothing in Paul worthy of death, a moment you affirm that guilt has no rightful claim on your true nature. Agrippa, the crowned ego of ambition, comes with pomp to judge and measure, while Paul—the inner I AM—remains untouched, having appealed to Augustus, the order within. The hearing is your inner audit: you survey your beliefs about yourself and determine what you will permit to live in your consciousness. When Festus reports there is no sentence to write to your lord, you sense a quiet decision that you will not condemn your reality. The examiner asks for a record, yet the inner script is already written by the higher self; the decree is one of life, not death. The drama dissolves into a simple truth: the real courtroom is consciousness, and the ruler is your I AM. You are not condemned but awakened; your life is governed from within by Augustus, the divine order inside you.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly and assume the I AM is the sole judge of your being; revise the inner verdict to I am not condemned and feel that truth as real in your chest.