I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.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.
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From this verse, the Word reaches
The same threadJohn 16:12
The plainness Jesus promises answers the burden He said they could not yet bear.
““I have yet many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.”
The same threadMark 4:34
Figures of speech in public and plainness in private is the same pattern Mark describes.
“Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.”
That reaches back to this verse
The same thread (this verse)John 16:12
The same conversation promises an end to figures of speech, when He will speak plainly about the Father.
““I have yet many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.”