John 16:25
"I have told you these things in allegories, but a time is coming when I shall not do so any longer, but will plainly tell you about the Father.
John 16:2
Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.
Matthew 13:10-11
Then His disciples came up to Him and asked, "Why do you speak to them in stories?"
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus told the crowds all this in stories, and without a story He told them nothing,
Mark 4:13
Then He said to them: "If you do not understand this story, how, indeed, can you understand any of my stories?
John 10:6
Jesus told them this allegory, but they did not understand what He meant by it.
John 16:12
"I have much more to tell you, but you cannot grasp it now.
John 16:16-17
"In just a little while you will not see me any longer; and yet, in just a little while after you will see me again."
John 16:28-29
I did come from the Father and I have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world 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, as promised, and poured out upon us the Holy Spirit, as you see and hear.
2 Corinthians 3:12-18
So, as I have such a hope, I speak with the greatest boldness,
2 Corinthians 4:2
On the other hand, I have renounced all underhanded, disgraceful methods; I neither practice cunning nor do I tamper with God's message, but by clear and candid statements of truth I try to commend myself to every human conscience in God's sight.