Matthew 13:13-14
Why Jesus Spoke the Way He Did
13 This is why I speak to them in parables: "Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. 14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: "'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
John 16:25-33
Jesus Talks to His Disciples Plainly
25 “Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. 26 In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 27 No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.28 I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
29 Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech. 30 Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God.”
31 “Do you now believe?” Jesus replied. 32 “A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.
33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
Matthew 24:35
Special and Lasting Words from Our LORD
35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
John 4:4-15
Jesus Talks to a Samaritan Woman
4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. 7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” 11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
Jesus spoke to a Samaritan woman, and His part of the conversation maybe view as ambiguous...The Samaritan woman asks Him if He is greater than their Patriarch Jacob, who dug the well where they are at...Jesus says the water He brings is different than the water from Jacob's well... Jesus told her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water.”...“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep...Where can you get this living water?...Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”...Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”...The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”...
In a sense, Jesus is telling the Samaritan woman that He is greater than Jacob...He did say, "and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water", implies He is Someone different...The woman could not have completely understood Jesus, but she knew He was a Man of God...But He did not come out and tell her this openly and frankly...
Jesus spoke differently than others...He had the most tremendous use of our language...And in this His use of language, I think He often confused others...He never, it seems wanted to speak curt and frankly...He spoke in proverbs and parables, and in a Truth and about Truths in such away, that (to me its seems) -we have to use faith to believe in Him...Because being God in the flesh, He could have easily spoken in a way to have everyone believing in Him, because He is God...He wants us to use our faith...And that is one of the reasons He spoke the way He did...
Many people in His time and today do not believe that Jesus was and is God in the flesh...Those that believe that He walked the earth and do not think He is at least the Son of the Blessed One seems somewhat of a contradiction to me...They must have thought both then and now, that He talked so much in these proverbs, these parables, used figures of speech so often, and used metaphors so much, that He never talked frankly and plainly...Jesus admits, He actually did have His own "kind of language" (John 16:25) -and that He would soon no longer have to use "this kind of language"... I think we often overlook the kind of language He used and that language in how He taught, and the way He spoke...For instance, if my brother or my friend comes up to me and seriously says "I and God are One", it would make me think what is going on (because I love my brother and friend)...What if he also tells me he is really from heaven and that I am not, because I am from below -and by the way I AM not of this world, I AM from Another World...Or if he told me he is the Messiah, what would I think or be thinking of him?...What if he also told me that what he spoke while living would never pass away?...Because I trust and love my brother and/or friend, confusion would be there for me...I think this sort of confusion surrounded Jesus at times, because of the way He used language...
Using "this kind of language" and being who He is even confused His Disciples off and on...But Jesus before His arrest says a time is coming when He will talk plainly to His Disciples...And after three years, His Disciples finally say, “Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech...Now we can see that You know all things and that You do not even need to have anyone ask You questions...This makes us believe that you came from God.”...It took them three years to say this...
"This Kind Of Language" was the greatest Words ever spoken...And if God came to this earth, wouldn't we expect Him to be somewhat different than us, and speak a little bit different, and utter the grandest Words ever spoken...And would not the grandest of Words never pass away...