John 16:25
"I have said these things to you in figurative language. The time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
John 16:2
You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.
Psalm 49:4
I will focus my attention on a proverb; I will use the harp to expound my riddle.
Psalm 78:2
I will tell a parable, speaking riddles from long ago
Proverbs 1:6
in understanding proverbs, clever sayings, words of the wise, and their riddles.
Matthew 13:10-11
Then the disciples came and asked Jesus, "Why do you speak to people in parables?"
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.
Mark 4:13
Then he told them, "You don't understand this parable, so how can you understand any of the parables?
John 10:6
Jesus used this illustration with them, but they didn't understand what he was saying to them.
John 16:12
"I still have a lot to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.
John 16:16-17
In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again."
John 16:28-29
I left the Father and came into the world. Now I'm leaving the world and going back to the Father."
Acts 2:33-36
He has been exalted to the right hand of God, has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, and has caused you to experience what you are seeing and hearing.
2 Corinthians 3:12-18
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we speak very boldly,
2 Corinthians 4:2
Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not use trickery or pervert God's word. By clear statements of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.