John 16:25
These thinges have I spoken vnto you in proverbes. The tyme will come when I shall no moare speake to you in proverbes: but I shall shewe you playnly from my father.
William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
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Matthew 13:34All these thynge spake Iesus vnto the people by similitudes and with oute similitudes spake he nothinge to them
John 10:6This similitude spake Iesus vnto them. But they vnderstode not what thinges they were which he spake vnto them.
John 16:12I have yet many thinges to saye vnto you: but ye canot beare them awaye now.
John 16:28I went out from the father and came into the worlde: and I leve the worlde agayne and go to ye 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 →