Neville Goddard on John 2:15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read John 2 in context

Scripture Focus

15And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

John 2:15

Biblical Context

Jesus drives out the traders from the temple, cleansing the space with zeal. The scene invites us to see the temple as our own consciousness and the act as a call to purify our motives toward true worship.

Neville's Inner Vision

John 2:15 is not merely a historical scene but a blueprint for the inner man. The temple is my consciousness; the vendors are restless thoughts about gain, status, and habitual comfort. The scourge of small cords represents a chosen discipline of attention that I apply with quiet urgency, a reforming act that clears the inner air. When I drive out the sheep and the oxen, I liberate consciousness from distraction, and when I overturn the tables of money changers, I overturn limiting beliefs about value and success. This zeal is not rage but the unwavering I AM presence asserting itself as purity and integrity. The purification prepares the heart for true worship, a unity of motive and deed under the divine law I acknowledge within. Judgment here becomes accountability to the self I have chosen to be, not punishment of others. In that inner act, the temple becomes luminous, and life itself reflects a purified state of consciousness.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly and assume you are the temple, and picture driving out the traders of fear. Then revise one belief to align with the I AM within and feel it real as your new worship.