Do you not say, 'It wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle.

"All this I have spoken to you in veiled language. The time is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in veiled language, but will tell you about the Father in plain words.

"Ah, now you are using plain language," said His disciples, "and are uttering no figure of speech!

because what may be known about Him is plain to their inmost consciousness; for He Himself has made it plain to them.

For these are a plain token of God's righteous judgement, which has in view your being deemed worthy of admission to God's Kingdom, for the sake of which, indeed, you are sufferers.

A plain token of God's righteous judgement, I say, since it is a righteous thing for Him to requite with affliction those who are now afflicting you;

is it not plain that in your hearts you have little faith, seeing that you have become judges full of wrong thoughts?