Neville Goddard on John 5:2-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read John 5 in context

Scripture Focus

2Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

4For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

John 5:2-4

Biblical Context

The text presents a pool at Bethesda where many infirm people await a stirring that would heal; the scene points to inner states of consciousness seeking wholeness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Bethesda is not a place of bricks but a state of consciousness in which you become aware of your wholeness. The five porches symbolize the five folds of perception through which the mind seeks healing by external means. The multitude of impotent folk represents beliefs of limitation you have carried, waiting for an outer sign to prove you well. The angel who stirs the water is the inner I AM, the living presence, awakening you to a new possibility. When the water is troubled and the first to step in acts, Neville would say the first moment you align with the renewed state in imagination, the old state dissolves. Healing arises as a shift in the inner movement, not a miracle of circumstance. Your task is to refuse the old story and inhabit the feeling of the fulfilled state. As you dwell in that assumption, the inner stir produces tangible changes in your outward scene. The Spirit heals by rewriting the sequence of events in your consciousness, not by tokens alone.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume you are already well; place your awareness in the I AM and feel the vitality of your healed body. Repeat 'I AM whole' until the feeling is real.