Joh 16:29
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. {proverb: or, parable}
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These 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. {proverbs: or, parables}
But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
What I tell you in darkness, {that} speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, {that} preach ye upon the housetops.
And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find {it} out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments: {sheets: or, shirts}
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: {plainness: or, boldness}
Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.