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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I have told you these things in parables (veiled language, allegories, dark sayings); the hour is now coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but I shall tell you about the Father in plain words and openly (without reserve). American Standard Version (1901) These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell you plainly of the Father. Common English Bible “I’ve been using figures of speech with you. The time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in such analogies. Instead, I will tell you plainly about the Father. Catholic Public Domain Version I have spoken these things to you in proverbs. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs; instead, I will announce to you plainly from the Father. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh, when I will no more speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father. |
I will open my mouth with a parable. I will utter perplexing sayings from of old,
to understand a proverb and a puzzle, the sayings of the wise and their riddles.
He said to them, “Don’t you grasp this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables?
But apart from a parable, He wasn’t speaking to them. Yet when they were alone, to His own disciples He would explain everything.
He was speaking openly about this. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.
Then the Judean leaders surrounded Him, saying, “How long will You hold us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, tell us outright!”
Yeshua told them this parable, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
“I still have much more to tell you, but you cannot handle it just now.
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.
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.
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.