John 16:25
These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: the hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but shall tell you plainly of the Father.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
26In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you;
Cross References
Psalms 49:4I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Proverbs 1:6To understand a proverb, and a figure; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Matthew 13:34All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:
John 10:6This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
John 16:12I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
John 16:28I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: 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 →