John 16:25
I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
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- John 16:12 I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.
- Matthew 13:34–35 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”
- Mark 4:13 Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?