John 16:25
I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
Cross References
Ezekiel 20:49
Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, 'Is he not just telling parables?'"

Matthew 13:34
Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.

Mark 4:34
He did not say anything to them without a parable. But privately He explained all things to His own disciples.

Mark 8:32
He spoke this message quite frankly, and Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.

John 10:6
Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

John 10:24
So the Jews gathered around Him and demanded, "How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly."

John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

John 16:29
His disciples said, "See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech.

John 16:32
"Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

proverbs.

John 16:12, 16, 17
I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it. . . .

Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:

Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from of old,

Proverbs 1:6
to understand the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

Matthew 13:10, 11, 34, 35
Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Why do You speak to the people in parables?" . . .

Mark 4:13
Then Jesus said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?

but.

John 16:28, 29
I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father." . . .

Acts 2:33-36
Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. . . .

2 Corinthians 3:12-18
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:2
Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

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