Neville Goddard on John 7:6-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read John 7 in context

Scripture Focus

6Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.

7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

8Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my time is not yet full come.

9When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.

John 7:6-9

Biblical Context

The passage teaches that timing is a state of consciousness, not a calendar; outward calls to action arise only when your inner readiness is complete, while the world reacts to the inner witness.

Neville's Inner Vision

John 7:6-9 invites you to see time as the I AM's maneuvering within. When Jesus says, My time is not yet come, he is pointing to the interior readiness that must precede outward display. Your time is alway ready, because the inner you—the Christ within, the I AM—chooses the exact moment of expression, not the crowd’s calendar. The world cannot hate you in truth; it hates the voice of your inner testimony, the witness that exposes its vanity. Therefore, do not mistake external demand for divine order. Go ye up unto this feast, yet I go not up yet; the external ritual can be observed in consciousness, while your inner center remains in Galilee, in stillness. The delay is not punishment but alignment—a revision of the assumption that you must perform before you are whole. Stay where the inner light abides, and let the unseen timing consummate your being; when you are full, your ordinary acts will become the feast itself, and the world’s reaction will fall away in the light of your inner state.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, breathe, and assume the inner state of fullness—'I am now in my full time.' Feel it real as if you are already at the feast, then revise any external schedule that blocks inner readiness.