John 16:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

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  • Matt 13:10-11 : 10 Then the disciples came to him and said,“Why do you speak to them in parables?” 11 He replied,“You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.
  • Matt 13:34-35 : 34 The Purpose of Parables Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable. 35 This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet:“I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”
  • Mark 4:13 : 13 He said to them,“Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?
  • John 10:6 : 6 Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
  • John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
  • John 16:12 : 12 “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
  • John 16:28-29 : 28 I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.” 29 His disciples said,“Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!
  • Ps 49:4 : 4 I will learn a song that imparts wisdom; I will then sing my insightful song to the accompaniment of a harp.
  • Ps 78:2 : 2 I will sing a song that imparts wisdom; I will make insightful observations about the past.
  • Prov 1:6 : 6 To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable, the sayings of the wise and their riddles.
  • Acts 2:33-36 : 33 So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear. 34 For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says,‘The Lord said to my lord,“Sit at my right hand 35 until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’ 36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.”
  • 2 Cor 3:12-18 : 12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness, 13 and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective. 14 But their minds were closed. For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read. It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away. 15 But until this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds, 16 but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom. 18 And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.
  • John 16:16-17 : 16 In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.” 17 Then some of his disciples said to one another,“What is the meaning of what he is saying,‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,’ and,‘because I am going to the Father’?”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 16:26-29
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    26At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

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

    28I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

    29His disciples said,“Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!

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

    23At that time you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

    24Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

  • John 16:3-6
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    3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

    4But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them.“I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

    5But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me,‘Where are you going?’

    6Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.

  • John 14:25
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    25“I have spoken these things while staying with you.

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

    13But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come.

    14He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

    15Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

    16In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.”

    17Then some of his disciples said to one another,“What is the meaning of what he is saying,‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,’ and,‘because I am going to the Father’?”

    18So they kept on repeating,“What is the meaning of what he says,‘In a little while’? We do not understand what he is talking about.”

    19Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them,“Are you asking each other about this– that I said,‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me’?

    20I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy.

  • John 14:18-20
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    18“I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.

    19In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.

    20You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

  • John 14:28-31
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    28You heard me say to you,‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

    29I have told you now before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe.

    30I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

    31but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • John 14:9-10
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    9Jesus replied,“Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,‘Show us the Father’?

    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

  • John 17:25-26
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    25Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

    26I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”

  • John 16:10
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    10concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;

  • John 17:13
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    13But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

  • Matt 11:27
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    27All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

  • John 13:33
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    33Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders,‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ now I tell you the same.

  • John 15:15
    73%

    15I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

  • John 14:7
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    7If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

  • John 17:1
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    1Jesus Prays for the Father to Glorify Him When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said,“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you–

  • John 8:27-28
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    27(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

    28Then Jesus said,“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

  • John 16:32-33
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    32Look, a time is coming– and has come– when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.

    33I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage– I have conquered the world.”

  • John 15:11
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    11I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

  • Luke 10:22
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    22All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”

  • John 14:16
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    16Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever–

  • John 15:26
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    26When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father– the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father– he will testify about me,

  • John 5:20
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    20For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

  • John 16:1
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    1“I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.

  • Matt 13:34
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    34The Purpose of Parables Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable.