John 16:25

A Conservative Version

These things I have spoken to you in veiled words. The hour comes, when I will no more speak to you in veiled words, but will inform you plainly about the Father.

Cross References

John 16:12

I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now.

John 10:6

Jesus spoke this allegory to them, but those men did not understand what it was that he spoke to them.

Mark 4:13

And he says to them, Do ye not know this parable? And how will ye understand all the parables?

Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth in parables (LXX/NT). I will utter dark sayings of old,

Psalm 49:4

I will incline my ear to a parable. I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

2 Corinthians 4:2

But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

John 16:2

They will make you excommunicated from the synagogues. But the hour comes that every man who kills you will presume to be offering service to God.

Proverbs 1:6

to understand a proverb, and a figure, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, Ah lord LORD! They say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?

Mark 4:34

And he did not speak to them apart from a parable, but privately he explained all things to his disciples.

Mark 8:32

And he spoke the matter openly. And having taken him aside, Peter began to rebuke him.

John 10:24

The Jews therefore surrounded him, and said to him, When do thou lift up our soul? If thou are the Christ, tell us plainly.

John 16:32

Behold, the hour comes, and now has come, that ye will be scattered, each man to his own things, and ye will leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.