John 10:6

All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and He was not speaking to them without a parable

and He was not speaking to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

“These things I have spoken to you in figures of speech; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you openly of the Father.

His disciples *said, “Behold, now You are speaking openly and are not using a figure of speech.

We are from God. The one who knows God hears us; the one who is not from God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.