John 16:25

The English Standar Version

"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 of speech but will tell you plainly about 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 lyre.

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 saying, 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 parables?' "

Mark 4:13

And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?

Mark 4:34

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

Mark 8:32

And he said this plainly. 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 Christ, tell us plainly."

John 10:6

This figure of speech Jesus used 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, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

John 16:32

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

2 Corinthians 4:2

But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.