John 16:29
Good News Translation
Then his disciples said to him, "Now you are speaking plainly, without using figures of speech.

New Revised Standard Version
His disciples said, “Yes, now you are speaking plainly, not in any figure of speech!

Contemporary English Version
The disciples said, "Now you are speaking plainly to us! You are not using examples.

New American Bible
His disciples said, “Now you are talking plainly, and not in any figure of speech.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly and speakest no proverb.

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His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly and speakest no proverb.

proverb.

John 16:25 These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.

Context
Ask and You will Receive
28I came forth from the Father and am come into the world: again I leave the world and I go to the Father. 29His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly and speakest no proverb. 30Now we know that thou knowest all things and thou needest not that any man should ask thee. By this we believe that thou camest forth from God.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:34
All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.

Mark 8:32
And he spoke the word openly. And Peter taking him began to rebuke him.

John 10:6
This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he spoke.

John 16:25
These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.

John 16:28
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