Neville Goddard on John 10:31-38 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read John 10 in context

Scripture Focus

31Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

32Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?

33The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

35If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

36Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

37If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

38But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

John 10:31-38

Biblical Context

The Jews stone Jesus, and he responds by pointing to the works from the Father; he asserts the unity of the Father in him, inviting belief in the inner reality rather than outward forms.

Neville's Inner Vision

View the scene as a psychological script. The crowd stone Jesus because they cling to a separate self; Jesus speaks from the inner state that the Father works through him. The works become the evidence that the I AM is present, not some external miracle alone. If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not is a call to shift from belief in form to belief in the inner fact. If you revise your sense of self until you feel the Father in you and you in the Father, the words you call blasphemy dissolve into truth. The scripture you are gods is a pointer that the word of God comes to every conscious state; in your inner law you are, at bottom, divine. When the Father sanctifies you and sends you, you awaken to the unity of being. If you do the inner work of living from that unity, you will know that the Father is in me and I in Him. The proof is not the judgment of others but the felt reality of the state within.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise your self-image to the truth of oneness: declare I and the Father are one, and feel the presence of the Father in you as the source of all your works. Then imagine the outcome you desire as already accomplished.