Joh 10:6 This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

Joh 16:25 “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Joh 16:29 His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech!
2Pe 2:22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”

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