"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 shew you plainly of the Father."
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To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
All this I have said to you in veiled language: but the time is coming when I will no longer say things in veiled language but will give you knowledge of the Father clearly.
These things I have spoken to you in allegories; the hour is coming that I will no longer speak to you in allegories, but will declare to you openly concerning the Father.
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 shew you plainly of the Father.
These things have I spoken to you in proverbs: but the time cometh when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly concerning the Father.
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.
`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.