John 16:25
"I have said all this to you in figurative language, but a time is coming when I shall not do so any longer, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
John 16:2
They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.
Matthew 13:10-11
His disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in figures?"
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus said all this to the crowds in figures, and told them nothing except in figures,
Mark 4:13
And Jesus said, "If you do not understand this figure, then how will you understand my other figures?
John 10:6
This was the figure Jesus used in speaking to them, but they did not understand what he meant by it.
John 16:12
I have much more to tell you, but you cannot take it in now,
John 16:16-17
"In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again."
John 16:28-29
I did come from the Father and enter the world. Now I am leaving the world again and going back to the Father."
Acts 2:33-36
So he has been exalted to God's right hand, and has received from his Father and poured over us the holy Spirit that had been promised, as you see and hear.
2 Corinthians 3:12-18
So since I have such a hope, I speak with great frankness,
2 Corinthians 4:2
I disown disgraceful, underhanded ways. I refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's message. It is by the open statement of the truth that I would commend myself to every human conscience in the sight of God.