John 16:25

John chapter 16 · verse 25 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.24Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.

v.25This passage

v.26In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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.
John 16:2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.
Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
John 16:28
I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father.
Acts 2:33
Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear.
John 10:6
This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.