25These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
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I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: …
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. …
And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-27)An answer to their askings is here promised, for their further comfort. Now there are two ways of asking: asking by way of enquiry, which is the asking of the ignorant; and asking by way of request, which is the asking of the indigent. Christ here speaks of both. I. By way of enquiry, they should not need to ask (John 16:23): “ In that day you shall ask me nothing ;” ouk erotesete ouden — you shal…
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