John 16:25

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.

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  • Matt 13:10-11 : 10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11 And he answered and said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
  • Matt 13:34-35 : 34 All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them: 35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world. [
  • Mark 4:13 : 13 And he saith unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how shall ye know all the parables?
  • John 10:6 : 6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
  • John 16:2 : 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.
  • John 16:12 : 12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
  • John 16:28-29 : 28 I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father. 29 His disciples say, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no dark saying.
  • Ps 49:4 : 4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
  • Ps 78:2 : 2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
  • Prov 1:6 : 6 To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
  • Acts 2:33-36 : 33 Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear. 34 For David ascended not into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, 35 Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet. 36 Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that God hath made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom ye crucified.
  • 2 Cor 3:12-18 : 12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, 13 and [are] not as Moses, [who] put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away: [ 14 but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed [to them] that it is done away in Christ. 15 But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart. 16 But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, [there] is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
  • John 16:16-17 : 16 A little while, and ye behold me no more; and again a little while, and ye shall see me. 17 [ Some] of his disciples therefore said one to another, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?

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  • John 16:26-29
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    26In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you;

    27for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

    28I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father.

    29His disciples say, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no dark saying.

  • John 16:22-24
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    22And ye therefore now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh away from you.

    23And in that day ye shall ask me no question. Verily, verily, I say unto you, if ye shall ask anything of the Father, he will give it you in my name.

    24Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.

  • John 16:3-6
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    3And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

    4But these things have I spoken unto you, that when their hour is come, ye may remember them, how that I told you. And these things I said not unto you from the beginning, because I was with you.

    5But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?

    6But because I have spoken these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

  • John 14:25
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    25These things have I spoken unto you, while [yet] abiding with you.

  • John 16:12-20
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    12I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

    13Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, [these] shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.

    14He shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall declare [it] unto you.

    15All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he taketh of mine, and shall declare [it] unto you.

    16A little while, and ye behold me no more; and again a little while, and ye shall see me.

    17[ Some] of his disciples therefore said one to another, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?

    18They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? We know not what he saith.

    19Jesus perceived that they were desirous to ask him, and he said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, A little while, and ye behold me not, and again a little while, and ye shall see me?

    20Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

  • John 14:18-20
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    18I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you.

    19Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold me: because I live, ye shall live also.

    20In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

  • John 14:28-31
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    28Ye heard how I said to you, I go away, and I come unto you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced, because I go unto the Father: for the Father is greater than I.

    29And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe.

    30I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me;

    31but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

  • John 14:9-10
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    9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, Show us the Father?

    10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works.

  • John 17:25-26
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    25O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;

    26and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.

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    10of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye behold me no more;

  • John 17:13
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    13But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

  • Matt 11:27
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    27All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal [him] .

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    33Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say unto you.

  • John 15:15
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    15No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.

  • John 14:7
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    7If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

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  • John 8:27-28
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    27They perceived not that he spake to them of the Father.

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  • John 16:32-33
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    32Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and [yet] I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

    33These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

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    11These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and [that] your joy may be made full.

  • Luke 10:22
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    22All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth who the Son is, save the Father; and who the Father is, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal [him] .

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    16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,

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    26But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me:

  • John 5:20
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    20For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and greater works than these will he show him, that ye may marvel.

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    1These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be caused to stumble.

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    34All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them: