John 16:25
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 shew you plainly of the Father.
KJV
Ταῦτα ἐν παροιμίαις λελάληκα ὑμῖν· ἔρχεται ὥρα ὅτε οὐκέτι ἐν παροιμίαις λαλήσω ὑμῖν, ἀλλὰ παρρησίᾳ περὶ τοῦ πατρὸς ἀπαγγελῶ ὑμῖν.
Greek NT
Hæc in proverbiis locutus sum vobis. Venit hora cum jam non in proverbiis loquar vobis, sed palam de Patre annuntiabo vobis :
Vulgate
These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell you plainly of the Father.
ASV
These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἔρχεται — SBLGNT
- ἔρχεται — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἀλλ᾽ ἔρχεται — Robinson-Pierpont
- ἀπαγγελῶ — SBLGNT
- ἀπαγγελῶ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἀναγγελῶ — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2615Even more, what the Father gives us when our prayer is united with that of Jesus is "another Counselor, to be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth."81 This new dimension of prayer and of its circumstances is displayed throughout the farewell discourse.82 In the Holy Spirit, Christian prayer is a communion of love with the Father, not only through Christ but also in him: …
44. We have gone through thus much before the passage in the Proverbs, resisting the insensate fables which their hearts have invented, that they may know that the Son of God ought not to be called a creature, and may learn lightly to read what admits in truth of a right explanation. For it is written, 'The Lord created me a beginning of His ways, for His works ;' since, howeve…
Cross-references
- 2Cor 3:12 — Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
- Deut 27:8 — And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.
- Ezek 20:49 — Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
- John 10:6 — This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
- John 14:8 — Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
- John 16:12 — I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
- John 16:28 — I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
- John 16:29 — His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
- John 16:32 — Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
- Mark 4:13 — And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
- Mark 4:34 — But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
- Mark 8:32 — And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
- Matt 10:27 — What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
- Matt 13:3 — And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
- Matt 13:10 — And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
- Matt 13:34 — All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
- Matt 13:34 — All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
- Ps 49:4 — I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
- Ps 78:2 — I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: