John 16:29

29 His disciples sayd vnto him: loo now speakest thou playnly and thou vsest no proverbe.

John 16:29 Meaning and Commentary

John 16:29

His disciples said unto him
Upon the above discourse of Christ, such rays and beams of light darted into the minds of the apostles, and things stood so clear in their view, and they so well understood what Christ had said, that they declare,

lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb:
what he had said before, were to them like proverbial, or parabolical expressions, not easy to be understood; they were like enigmas, riddles, and dark sayings, the meaning of which they could not apprehend; but now they observe, with admiration, that what he delivered was plain, and intelligible; which was not so much owing to Christ's different way of speaking now, from what it was before, as to their former dulness of hearing, and now having some further degree of light given unto them.

John 16:29 In-Context

27 For ye father him selfe loveth you because ye have loved me and have beleved that I came out from God.
28 I went out from the father and came into the worlde: and I leve the worlde agayne and go to ye father.
29 His disciples sayd vnto him: loo now speakest thou playnly and thou vsest no proverbe.
30 Nowe knowe we that thou vnderstondest all thinges and nedest not yt eny man shuld axe the eny question. Therfore beleve we that thou camst fro god.
31 Iesus answered them: Now ye do beleve.
The Tyndale Bible is in the public domain.