John 16:25
“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
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- John 16:12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.
- Matthew 13:34–35 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
- Mark 4:13 He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?