Neville Goddard on John 2:19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read John 2 in context

Scripture Focus

19Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

John 2:19

Biblical Context

John 2:19 presents Jesus saying the temple will be destroyed and raised up in three days, signaling a transformative inner shift rather than a building being altered. The temple stands for your own consciousness, and the message invites a renewal of identity from fear to faith.

Neville's Inner Vision

John 2:19 speaks in a language of the inner man: destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. The temple is your own consciousness, not a building, and its destruction is merely the letting go of a former self that believes in lack, separation, or fear. When you permit that identity to fall away, the rising up is the natural reawakening of your awareness to its true source. The three days are symbolic of the inward sequence: release, rest, renewal, the moment your imagining self yields to the I AM. Trust is not a distant event but a conversion in the present, a shift from doubt to the certainty that God is the only reality. The resurrection is not something God does to you; it is your realization that you already are the living temple manifesting God in form. Therefore, the temple you destroy is the old you; the one that rises is the new, eternally alive I AM that you are, here and now.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, visualize the old self as a temple dissolving; then feel the inner you awakening in present stillness as the new temple. Repeat: 'I am the resurrection now,' and dwell in that feeling until it becomes your ordinary state.