Inner Officers, Outer Truth
John 7:45-49 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read John 7 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The officers bring Jesus to the chief priests and Pharisees; they question why he has not been captured. The officers testify that no man spoke like Jesus. The Pharisees doubt them, question if anyone among the rulers believes in him, and condemn the people for not knowing the law.
Neville's Inner Vision
John 7:45-49 is not a history lesson but a map of consciousness. The officers are your outward habits of compliance, the Pharisees are fixed beliefs that trust the outer law above inner truth. When the officer says Never man spake like this man, you hear the inner voice of I AM speaking through you, a truth that cannot be contained by tradition. The Pharisees' question Are ye also deceived? embodies the ego's habit of doubt, claiming authority over the living truth. Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? points to the external authorities you defer to as proof, and the curse spoken of is the misalignment with the true law of consciousness. But the inner law is your imagination and faith; to believe is to yield to the I AM and let the new speech flow through you. When you do, you cease measuring reality by others' judgments, and truth becomes your immediate experience.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume the inner witness who speaks truth through you; revise the doubt that anyone else controls your reality, and feel it real that the I AM is directing your experience now.
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