John 16:25
'These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
24till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Cross References
Psalms 49:4I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:
Proverbs 1:6For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
Matthew 13:34All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,
John 10:6This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;
John 16:12'I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear [them] now;
John 16:28I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on 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 →