Neville Goddard on John 11:32-37 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read John 11 in context

Scripture Focus

32Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

33When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

34And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.

35Jesus wept.

36Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!

37And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?

John 11:32-37

Biblical Context

Mary and the others weep as Jesus arrives; he is moved by their sorrow and reveals a tender, divine presence that invites a shift of belief from loss to life.

Neville's Inner Vision

Mary's lament and the crowd's weeping mirror the inner grief you sometimes wear when a treasured state seems lost. Jesus' presence in the scene is not a distant miracle worker but the I AM within your own consciousness, feeling the ache with you and inviting you to a turn of belief. The question, 'Where have ye laid him?' becomes a practical instruction: locate the place in your mind where you have buried a life-promoting state and choose to move your attention. 'Jesus wept' is not pity from above but the compassionate witness of your own awareness—your awareness grieving alongside you yet ready to revise. The implication is clear: the healing you seek arises when you stop identifying with the death of a state and instead rest in the I AM presence here. Beholding the scene with new sight, you allow life to re-enter as you shift your inner posture from despair to the faith that is always present. This is the mechanism of revival in your own inner world: compassion as the gateway to realized life.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and assume the I AM presence here now. Revise the scene by declaring, 'I am here; the life I seek is already alive in me,' and feel the healing belief becoming real.