Neville Goddard on John 7:19-24 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read John 7 in context

Scripture Focus

19Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

20The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?

21Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.

22Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

23If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

24Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

John 7:19-24

Biblical Context

Jesus points out the contradiction that the people claim to keep the law yet fail to do so, heals on the Sabbath, and challenges them not to judge by appearances but by inner truth.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this reading, the 'law' sits as the architecture of your own mind. The Sabbath is not a calendar but the quiet center of awareness where you rest from the outward struggle and allow the inner truth to be felt as present reality. The crowd's accusation, 'you have a devil,' reveals the habit of judging by outer appearances instead of the inner fact you are already complete. Jesus speaks of one work—the making whole—this is the inner act by which consciousness returns to its natural wholeness, not a single miracle separated from your own state. The reference to circumcision points to a cleansing of form that occurs when the heart yields to the Father within; true purification is inward, not external ceremony. Therefore, to judge righteously is to align perception with the inner law you already embody—the I AM that heals, creates, and names what is true. The outward scene is a mirror of your inner state; your healing on the Sabbath proves that inner creation precedes outward manifestation, inviting you to claim that state now.