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 in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

John 16:2

They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Psalm 49:4

I turn my ear to a proverb;
I explain my riddle with a lyre.

Psalm 78:2

I will declare wise sayings;
I will speak mysteries from the past—

Proverbs 1:6

for understanding a proverb or a parable,
the words of the wise, and their riddles.

Matthew 13:10-11

Then the disciples came up and asked Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

Matthew 13:34-35

Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and He would not speak anything to them without a parable,

Mark 4:13

Then He said to them: “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any of the parables?

John 10:6

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

John 16:12

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

John 16:16-17

“A little while and you will no longer see Me; again a little while and you will see Me.”

John 16:28-29

I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

Acts 2:33-36

Therefore, since He has been exalted to the right hand of God and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, He has poured out what you both see and hear.

2 Corinthians 3:12-18

Therefore, having such a hope, we use great boldness.

Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God’s message, but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.

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John 16:25

These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.

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I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

Therefore, since He has been exalted to the right hand of God and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, He has poured out what you both see and hear.

Therefore, having such a hope, we use great boldness.