John 16:25 · KJV
“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. {proverbs: or, parables}”
— John 16:25
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
John 16 — Context
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.
24Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
25These 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. {proverbs: or, parables}
26At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
27For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Cross References
John 16:12
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
Mark 4:13
And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
John 16:28-29
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
John 10:6
This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
Matthew 13:10-11
And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
Psalms 49:4
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: