John 16:29
His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.
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John 16:29
His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.
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John 16:30
Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”
John 16:31
Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?
John 16:32
Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
John 16:33
I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
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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.
John 10:6
Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.
2 Peter 2:22
But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”
Matthew 13:13
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.
Matthew 13:34
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,
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John 16:1
“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.
John 16:27
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
John 16:28
I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.”
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2 Corinthians 3:12
Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
John 10:24
The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
John 11:14
So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead.
2 Corinthians 4:2
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
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John 16:17
Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”
John 16:19
Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’
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