John 16:25
These things I have spoken to you in allegories; the hour is coming that I will no longer speak to you in allegories, but will declare to you openly concerning the Father.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
24Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
26In that day ye shall ask in my name; and I say not to you that I will demand of the Father for you,
Cross References
Psalms 49:4I will incline mine ear to a parable, I will open my riddle upon the harp.
Proverbs 1:6to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.
Matthew 13:34All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,
John 10:6This allegory spoke Jesus to them, but they did not know what it was [of] which he spoke to them.
John 16:12I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now.
John 16:28I came out 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 →