John 16:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

I have spoken these things to you in proverbs: but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but I will show you plainly about the Father.

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  • Matt 13:10-11 : 10 And the disciples came to Him and asked, Why do You speak to them in parables? 11 He replied, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
  • Matt 13:34-35 : 34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. 35 So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.
  • Mark 4:13 : 13 And he said to them, Do you not know this parable? How then will you know all parables?
  • John 10:6 : 6 This parable Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
  • John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
  • John 16:12 : 12 I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
  • John 16:28-29 : 28 I came forth from the Father and have come into the world: again, I leave the world and go to the Father. 29 His disciples said to him, 'Look, now you are speaking plainly and not using any proverb.'
  • Ps 49:4 : 4 I will incline my 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 the interpretation, the words of the wise and their riddles.
  • Acts 2:33-36 : 33 Therefore, being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured out what you now see and hear. 34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself: 'The LORD said to my Lord, ‘Sit at My right hand, 35 Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.' 36 Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.
  • 2 Cor 3:12-18 : 12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 13 And not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not steadily look to the end of what was being abolished: 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day, the same veil remains untaken away in the reading of the old covenant; which veil is done away in Christ. 15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their hearts. 16 Nevertheless, when it turns to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 But we all, with unveiled faces beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
  • John 16:16-17 : 16 In a little while you will not see me: and again, in a little while, you will see me, because I go to the Father. 17 Then some of his disciples said among themselves, 'What is this that he says to us, A little while, and you will not see me: and again, a little while, and you will see me: and, Because I go to the Father?'

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  • John 16:26-29
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    26In that day you will ask in my name: and I do not say to you that I will pray the Father for you:

    27For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

    28I came forth from the Father and have come into the world: again, I leave the world and go to the Father.

    29His disciples said to him, 'Look, now you are speaking plainly and not using any proverb.'

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

    23And in that day you will ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

    24Until now you have asked nothing in my name: ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be complete.

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

    4But I have told you these things, so when the time comes, you may remember I told you about them. I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

    5But now I go to Him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'

    6But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

  • John 14:25
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    25These things I have spoken to you while being present with you.

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

    13However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth: for he will not speak on his own; but whatever he hears, he will speak: and he will show you things to come.

    14He will glorify me: for he will take of what is mine, and will show it to you.

    15All things that the Father has are mine: therefore, I said he will take of mine, and show it to you.

    16In a little while you will not see me: and again, in a little while, you will see me, because I go to the Father.

    17Then some of his disciples said among themselves, 'What is this that he says to us, A little while, and you will not see me: and again, a little while, and you will see me: and, Because I go to the Father?'

    18They said therefore, 'What is this that he says, A little while? We do not understand what he is saying.'

    19Now Jesus knew they wanted to ask him and said to them, 'Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, A little while, and you will not see me: and again, a little while, and you will see me?'

    20Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice: and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

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    18I will not leave you as orphans: I will come to you.

    19Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you will live also.

    20At that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

  • John 14:28-31
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    28You have heard me say to you, I am going away and coming back to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice because I said, I am going to the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

    29And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it does come to pass, you might believe.

    30Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world is coming, and he has nothing in me.

    31But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

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    9Jesus said to him, Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; and how do you say then, Show us the Father?

    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own: but the Father who dwells in me does the works.

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    25O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.

    26And I have declared to them your name, and will declare it: that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.

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    7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also: and from now on you know him, and have seen him.

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    27They did not understand that he spoke to them of the Father.

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    32Behold, the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

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    34Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable.