John 16:25
“I have told you these things in figures of speech, but an hour is coming when I will no longer use figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.
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Matthew 13:34All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables; he did not speak to them without using a parable.
John 10:6Jesus spoke to them with this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
John 16:12“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
John 16:28I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and 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 →