Neville Goddard on Acts 8:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 8 in context

Scripture Focus

3As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

4Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.

Acts 8:3-4

Biblical Context

Saul persecuted the church, dragging believers to prison; as a result, those scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word.

Neville's Inner Vision

Saul in this reading is the stubborn state of mind that would imprison the living truth. The havock he makes of the church is not in a history book, but a symbol of inner conviction that fears the light and battles against unity. Each house he enters is a private chamber of consciousness, and every arrest is a breaking of old stories about who you are. When the believers are scattered, it is the mind's energy moving outward, not catastrophe, and the 'preaching the word' is the I AM expressing as you under pressure. The outer dispersion becomes an inward expansion: your awareness refuses to remain fixed in one room of the soul, but blooms wherever you find yourself. God is the I AM that never leaves; even persecution becomes a doorway through which the living Word can travel. So trust that crisis is merely the mechanism by which consciousness reveals its true reach. The apparent enemy is a signpost showing you where you are ready to witness from anew.