Neville Goddard on John 5:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read John 5 in context

Scripture Focus

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 5:3-4

Biblical Context

John 5:3-4 describes a pool where many sick folk waited for a movement in the waters; healing comes to the one who steps into that movement.

Neville's Inner Vision

The scene in John 5:3-4 is not about a pool of water alone, but the inner pool of your own consciousness. The multitude of impotent folk represents the many states you have believed about yourself—fear, weariness, limitation—until you realize they are not external sicknesses but inner dispositions. The moving of the water signifies a stirring of awareness, a moment when imagination awakens a new possibility. The angel who troubles the water is the living impulse of your I AM, descending into your mind at the season you designate as Now. The first to step in after the stirring is the one who enters a state of healing by assumption, not by time or external agents. Healing is already yours in the I AM; you awaken to it by dwelling in the end—being wholly well. Mercy and Providence are your inward law responding to your voluntary shift of attention. Persist in this revised inner state, and the outer experience must harmonize with your inner healing.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine the pool of your consciousness stirring. Assume the end now—feel yourself as well and let that feeling permeate every part of you until it becomes real.