John 16:25
I have spoken to you in figurative language (illustrations and proverbs). The hour comes when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language. I will tell you plainly from the Father.
John 16:2
They will throw you out of the synagogues. Yes, the hour comes that whoever kills you will think that he offered service to God.
Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear (turn my attention) to a proverb. I will explain my riddle with the music of a harp.
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in an illustration. I will utter dark sayings of old,
Proverbs 1:6
This will help him understand a proverb and the interpretation as well as the words of the wise and their riddles.
Matthew 13:10-11
The disciples asked him: Why do you speak in illustrations?
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus spoke with illustrations to the crowds. He did not speak anything without using illustrations.
Mark 4:13
Then he asked: Do you not understand this illustration? How will you understand any of the illustrations?
John 10:6
They did not understand this illustration Jesus spoke to them.
John 16:12
I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot endure them now.
John 16:16-17
A little while and you will see me no more and again a little while, and you will see me.
John 16:28-29
I came out from the Father and came into the world. I leave the world and go to the Father.
Acts 2:33-36
He is exalted to the right hand of God. He has received the promised Holy Spirit from the Father. So he poured out what you now see and hear.
2 Corinthians 3:12-18
Since we have such a hope we use great boldness of speech.
2 Corinthians 4:2
We have renounced the hidden things of shame. And we do not walk in craftiness and deceit. We do not adulterate the word of God. But by the manifestation of the truth we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.