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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Numbers 29:7
“ ‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;
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Judges 14:12
Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
1 Kings 10:1
When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.
Psalms 49:4
I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.
Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.
Ezekiel 17:2
“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
Ezekiel 20:49
Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”
Luke 14:7
He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
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Matthew 13:4
As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.
Matthew 13:5
Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.
Matthew 13:6
When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
Matthew 13:7
Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
Matthew 13:8
Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
Matthew 13:9
He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Matthew 13:36
Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”
Matthew 15:15
Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”
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Matthew 10:27
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
Matthew 13:1
On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside.
Matthew 13:2
Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach.
Matthew 13:3
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
Matthew 13:10
The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
Matthew 13:11
He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
Matthew 13:12
For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
Matthew 13:14
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive;
Matthew 13:15
for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’
Matthew 13:16
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
Matthew 13:17
For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.
Matthew 13:35
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 4:34
Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
Mark 7:17
When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.
Luke 8:10
He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
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John 2:19
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
John 2:20
The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”
John 2:21
But he spoke of the temple of his body.
John 2:22
When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.
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John 7:4
For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”
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John 7:16
Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
John 16:26
In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to the Father for you,
Romans 8:26
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
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John 14:7
If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him and have seen him.”
John 14:8
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
John 14:9
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’
John 14:10
Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
John 14:20
In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
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John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
John 3:13
No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
John 6:33
For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.”
John 6:38
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
John 6:51
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
John 6:62
Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
John 7:17
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.
John 8:42
Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
John 13:3
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God,
John 16:13
However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
John 16:16
“A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”
John 17:5
Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
John 17:7
Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,
John 20:17
Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”
1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
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Acts 2:33
Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you now see and hear.
Acts 2:34
For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand
Acts 2:35
until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” ’
Acts 2:36
“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
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Matthew 16:22
Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”
Mark 8:32
He spoke to them openly. Peter took him and began to rebuke him.
Mark 9:10
They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.
Mark 9:32
But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
Luke 9:44
“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”
Luke 18:33
They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”
Luke 18:34
They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.
Luke 24:25
He said to them, “Foolish people, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
Luke 24:26
Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”
Luke 24:27
Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
John 12:16
His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
John 12:33
But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
John 12:34
The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”
John 16:18
They said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.”
Acts 17:18
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
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1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
2 Corinthians 3:13
and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face so that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.
2 Corinthians 3:14
But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
2 Corinthians 3:15
But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
2 Corinthians 3:16
But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 4:3
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,
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1 Corinthians 13:1
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 14:19
However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
2 Corinthians 4:13
But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.” We also believe, and therefore we also speak,
Colossians 4:4
that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.
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