John 16:25

'These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.

John 16:2

out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

Psalm 49:4

I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:

Psalm 78:2

I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,

Proverbs 1:6

For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.

Matthew 13:10-11

And the disciples having come near, said to him, 'Wherefore in similes dost thou speak to them?'

Matthew 13:34-35

All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,

Mark 4:13

And he saith to them, 'Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?

John 10:6

This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;

John 16:12

I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear them now;

John 16:16-17

a little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go away unto the Father.'

John 16:28-29

I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.'

Acts 2:33-36

at the right hand then of God having been exalted -- also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father -- he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;

2 Corinthians 3:12-18

Having, then, such hope, we use much freedom of speech,

2 Corinthians 4:2

but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

But

John 16:28
I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.'
Acts 2:33
at the right hand then of God having been exalted -- also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father -- he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;
2 Corinthians 3:12
Having, then, such hope, we use much freedom of speech,
2 Corinthians 4:2
but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;