Neville Goddard on John 12:17-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read John 12 in context

Scripture Focus

17The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.

18For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.

19The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.

John 12:17-19

Biblical Context

The passage centers on testimony born from Jesus’ act of awakening Lazarus. The Pharisees fear the crowd’s devotion and seek to preserve status.

Neville's Inner Vision

John 12:17-19 reveals the moment when those with him bear witness to a grave made alive by consciousness. Yet the history here is not merely about a man named Lazarus; it is about your inner self waking to life. The crowd’s record is your own inner testimony—the places that believe and the faith that persists—while the Pharisees within you murmur against change and clutch to what seems safe. When you image Lazarus stepping from the tomb, you are rehearsing a shift of consciousness, not a past event. The world that goes after him represents the outer responses that follow a settled inner truth. The miracle is granted by your assumption of the end: you awake, and life issues forth from within. The Kingdom of God arrives as the certainty that you are the I AM in action, drawing the visible from the invisible and turning fear into faithful admiration. Your task is to dwell in that I AM until the outer becomes a faithful echo of the inner.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly and imagine the inner Lazarus rising from the tomb of limitation; then revise a stubborn belief with the feeling, 'I am awakened now, and my outer world follows the light of this inner life.'