John 16:25
These things have I spoken to you in allegories: but the hour will come, when I shall not speak to you in allegories, but I will speak to you plainly of the Father.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
24Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and ye will receive; that your joy may be complete.
26In that day ye will ask in my name; and I do not say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you;
Cross References
Matthew 13:34All these things Jesus discoursed to the multitude in similitudes; and without similitudes he did not discourse with them.
John 10:6This allegory spake Jesus to them; but they knew not what he said to them.
John 16:12Moreover, I have much to say to you: but ye cannot comprehend it now.
John 16:28I proceeded forth from before the Father, and came into the world; and 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 →