Neville Goddard on Luke 22:54-56 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Luke 22 in context

Scripture Focus

54Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.

55And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.

56But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.

Luke 22:54-56

Biblical Context

Peter follows from afar, sits by the fire among the crowd, and is named by a maid as being with Him. This scene exposes the tension between loyalty and fear of exposure.

Neville's Inner Vision

Luke 22:54-56 shows Peter hovering at a distance while the scene of the trial closes in. In Neville's key, the outer events are mere mirrors of inner states: the high priest's house is the mind's own court where belief in distance isolates the I AM from its own truth. Peter's following afar off is not a betrayal of Jesus but a belief that consciousness can be apart from its unity. The fire in the hall is the heat of attention, inviting the thought-form of fear into the present, and the maid's gaze is the inner witness that declares, you were with Him. The moment of recognition exposes the lie that you are separate from your Source. When you recall that God is the I AM right where you stand, the imagined distance dissolves. The present becomes an opportunity to revise: I am with Him now; I and the Presence are one.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and repeat, 'I am with Him now' until the felt unity floods your chest. Carry that sense into daily moments, revising the belief of separation with every breath.