John 16:25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures but will tell you plainly of the Father.

Cross References

Psalm 49:4

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the harp.

Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,

Proverbs 1:6

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

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’ ”

Mark 4:13

And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables?

Mark 4:34

he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.

Mark 8:32

He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

John 10:24

So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

John 10:6

Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

John 16:12

“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, an hour is coming when those who kill you will think that by doing so they are offering worship to God.

John 16:32

The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each one to his home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.

2 Corinthians 4:2

We have renounced the shameful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to falsify God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God.