John 16:25
These in parables I have spoken with you; but the hour cometh when I will not speak with you in parables, but manifestly; and I will announce to you concerning the Father.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
24Hitherto you have not asked any thing in my name: ask, and 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 of the Father for you;
Cross References
Matthew 13:34All these spake Jeshu in parables to the multitude; and without a parable he did not speak with them.
John 10:6This parable spake Jeshu to them, but they knew not what he said with them.
John 16:12I have yet much to tell you, but you cannot now apprehend;
John 16:28I came forth from the Father, and came into the world; and again I leave the world, and go unto 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 →