John 16:25

¹²“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

³⁴Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them, ³⁵that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

¹³He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

⁶Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

²⁸I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.”

²⁹His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.

²I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

⁴I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

¹⁰The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

¹¹He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

¹²Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, ¹³and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face so that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away. ¹⁴But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away. ¹⁵But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. ¹⁶But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. ¹⁷Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ¹⁸But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

⁶to understand a proverb and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.