John 16:25
“These things I have spoken to you in figures of speech; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
26In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will beseech the Father for you;
Cross References
Matthew 13:34Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds, and without a parable He did not speak to them,
John 10:6This illustration Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them. 1 I AM the Good Shepherd
John 16:12“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
John 16:28I came forth from the Father and I have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and I am going 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 →