⁴⁹ Then I said, “Ah Lord God! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’ ”^(A)

Peace for the Disciples

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 but will tell you plainly of the Father.

¹⁸ Also some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some said, “What does this pretentious babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign divinities.” (This was because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)

¹³ The reason I speak to them in parables is that ‘seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.’^{(A) 14} With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says:

² O mortal, propound a riddle and speak an allegory to the house of Israel.^(A)