John 16:25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘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.

Cross References

John 16:12

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

John 10:6

Jesus gave them this figure of speech, but they did not understand  what he was telling them.

Mark 4:13

Then  he said to them, ‘Don’t you understand this parable?   How then will you understand all of the parables?

2 Corinthians 4:2

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful things, not acting  deceitfully or distorting the word of God,  but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth.

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.

Proverbs 1:6

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

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, ‘Oh, Lord God, they are saying of me, “Isn’t he just composing parables? ” ’

Mark 4:34

He did not speak to them without a parable. Privately, however, he explained everything to his own disciples.

Mark 8:32

He spoke openly about this. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

John 10:24

The Jews surrounded him and asked, ‘How long are you going to keep us in suspense?  If you are the Messiah,  tell us plainly.’  ,

John 16:32

Indeed, an hour is coming, and has come,   when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.