Temple Cleansing for Inner Passover
John 2:13-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read John 2 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
John 2:13-14 presents Jesus arriving in Jerusalem for Passover and finding merchants and money-changers inside the temple. This scene reveals the tension between sacred worship and worldly commerce.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within this Neville-inspired reading, the temple is your state of awareness, and the Passover signals a release from an old, scattered mind. When you imagine Jesus entering Jerusalem and sensing oxen, sheep, doves, and money changers inside the sacred space, you are not watching a history lesson but sensing a timeless inner claim: the mind has permitted commerce to crowd out reverence. The 'merchants' and 'money changers' are your habitual thoughts—fear, pride, the need to perform, the belief that value comes from externals. To cleanse the temple is to revise from within, to affirm that the I AM, your true self, is the sole priest and the sole audience. In that revision, true worship arises as alignment, not as ritual, and holiness is separation from beliefs that degrade consciousness. The Passover becomes liberation of the inferior self by the superior awareness you already are. Watch, revise, and feel the inner space enlarged by this realization, and the external world will follow your inner order.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes, step into your inner temple, and visibly clear the stalls of fear and habit. Feel the space filling with reverent quiet as you declare, I AM the temple, and true worship comes from within.
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