Verse 25

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 13:10-11 : 10 The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" 11 He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
  • Matt 13:34-35 : 34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to 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 He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
  • John 10:6 : 6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.
  • John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
  • John 16:12 : 12 "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.
  • John 16:28-29 : 28 I came out 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, "Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech.
  • Ps 49:4 : 4 I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on 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 parables, the words and riddles of the wise.
  • Acts 2:33-36 : 33 Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear. 34 For David didn't ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand, 35 until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."' 36 "Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."
  • 2 Cor 3:12-18 : 12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, 13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn't look steadfastly 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 remains, because in Christ it passes away. 15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. 16 But whenever one turns 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 you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me." 17 Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"