I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.
Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?
Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”
Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.
Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do You speak to the people in parables?”
I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On th
They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a
Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out wha
In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.”
by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.