John 16:25

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John 16:23–27 · Berean Standard Bible

23 In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

24 Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

25 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.

26 In that day you will ask in My name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

27 For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.

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I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.

John 16:16

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John 16:17

Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

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I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:

Psalms 78:2

I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,

Proverbs 1:6

by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

Matthew 13:10

Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do You speak to the people in parables?”

Matthew 13:11

He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

Matthew 13:34

Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.

Matthew 13:35

So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”

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Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?

John 16:28

I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”

John 16:29

His disciples said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech.

Acts 2:33

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Acts 2:34

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand

Acts 2:35

until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’

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Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”

2 Corinthians 3:12

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.

2 Corinthians 3:13

We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.

2 Corinthians 3:15

And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.

2 Corinthians 3:16

But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

2 Corinthians 3:17

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

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Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.