John 16:25
These things haue I spoken vnto you in parables: but the time will come, when I shall no more speake to you in parables: but I shall shew you plainely of the Father.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
24Hitherto haue ye asked nothing in my Name: aske, and ye shall receiue, that your ioye may be full.
Cross References
Psalms 49:4I will incline mine eare to a parable, and vtter my graue matter vpon the harpe.
Proverbs 1:6To vnderstand a parable, and the interpretation, the wordes of ye wise, and their darke sayings.
Matthew 13:34All these thinges spake Iesus vnto the multitude in parables, and without parables spake he not to them,
John 10:6This parable spake Iesus vnto them: but they vnderstoode not what things they were which he spake vnto them.
John 16:12I haue yet many things to say vnto you, but ye cannot beare them nowe.
John 16:28I am come out from the Father, and came into the worlde: againe I leaue the worlde, and goe to the Father.
Matthew Henry on John 16:24-28
Encouragement to Prayer. 23 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. 24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. 25 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 show you plainly of the Father. 26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the… Read the whole commentary →