Micron

Who Do They Say I Am?
Paroimia 2: Parresia & Paroimia

“All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.”
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Jesus went on to say, “In a little while (micron) you will see me no more, and then after a little while (μικρὸν) you will see me.”

At this, some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘In a little while (micron) you will see me no more, and then after a little while (micron) you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” They kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’ (micron)? We don’t understand what he is saying.”

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“Though I have been speaking figuratively (paroimia), a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking clearly (parrésia) and without figures of speech (paroimia). 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.”
“Do you now believe?” Jesus replied. “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.
“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.”

John 16:1‭-‬3‭, ‬16-‬18‭, ‬25‭-‬33