John 16:25

These things I have spoken to you in parables; the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in parables, but will teach you plainly concerning the Father.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

24Till this time you have asked for nothing in my name; ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

26In that day you shall ask in my name; and I say not to you, that I will ask the Father in your behalf;

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Cross References

Matthew 13:34All these things Jesus spoke to the multitudes in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them;

John 10:6This parable spoke Jesus to them; but they knew not the meaning of the things which he spoke to them.

John 16:12I have yet many things to say to you; but you can not bear them now.

John 16:28I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world: again I leave the world, and go to the Father.

Matthew Henry on John 16:24-28

Encouragement to Prayer. 23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. 24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. 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 show you plainly of the Father. 26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the… Read the whole commentary →

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