John 16:25

Tree of Life Version

“These things I have spoken to you in metaphors. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in metaphors, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Cross References

John 16:12

“I still have much more to tell you, but you cannot handle it just now.

John 10:6

Yeshua told them this parable, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

Mark 4:13

He said to them, “Don’t you grasp this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables?

Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth with a parable. I will utter perplexing sayings from of old,

Psalm 49:4

My mouth speaks wisdom, My heart’s meditation is understanding.

2 Corinthians 4:2

Instead, we renounced the hidden shameful ways—not walking in deception or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by the open proclamation of the truth.

John 16:2

They will throw you out of the synagogues. Yes, an hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Proverbs 1:6

to understand a proverb and a puzzle, the sayings of the wise and their riddles.

Mark 4:34

But apart from a parable, He wasn’t speaking to them. Yet when they were alone, to His own disciples He would explain everything.

Mark 8:32

He was speaking openly about this. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.

John 10:24

Then the Judean leaders surrounded Him, saying, “How long will You hold us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, tell us outright!”

John 16:32

Look, the hour is coming—indeed has come—when you will be scattered, each to his own, and you will abandon Me. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.