Neville ties John 8:57 to his own life: born in February 1905, he was forty-nine and a half — 'not yet fifty years of age' — in July 1959 when the experience came, which he offers as proof that scripture is a play staged in each man on cue.
Date (happened)
July 1959
certain
- July 1959
- July 1959
- July 1959
- c. 1959
Place
Persons
Told / reported
- 5 May 1969
- 5 May 1969
Sources
Source
- The Wisdom, Power, and Glory Buried in Us ¶37 (Well, if you want to add, in the month of July 1959, I was not yet by six months fifty years of age. That’s how he does it, it’s a play.)
- The Wisdom, Power, and Glory Buried in Us ¶37 ("I was forty-nine and a half")
Attested in 1 lecture
| Date | Lecture or book | Telling | Passage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-05-05 [exact/probable/final] | The Wisdom, Power, and Glory Buried in Us | My dear, from the time I was a little boy I had things I could not understand, so I can’t go back to that. But I had mystical or psychic experiences that I did not understand that scared me to death. My one great one that began it all was when I was taken into the divine assembly and brought before the risen Lord. I’ve told you that story and I have written it. Well, that happened in 1929, in the summer of ’29. Thirty years later began the unfolding of these mighty acts of God within me: the resurrection and the birth, the discovery of the fatherhood of God, the splitting of the curtain of… | 547079 |