John 16:25 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁵ ‘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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ 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

²⁵ 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)

²⁵ 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

²⁵ “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

²⁵ 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

²⁵ 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.

John 16:25 Tagairtí Cros

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 4:13

Then  he said to them, ‘Don’t you understand this parable?   How then will you understand all of the 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 10:6

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

John 16:12

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

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.

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.

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.