Matthew 13:13-14
therefore speak I to them in parables: because they over-look what they see: and are inattentive to what they hear, neither will they comprehend.
Matthew 13:35
so that this saying of the prophet was fulfilled, "I will talk in parables, I will utter what has been kept secret from the foundation of the world."
Mark 4:33-34
Thus he instructed them by such a variety of parables as were adapted to their capacity.
1 Corinthians 13:12
now we do but indirectly see the faint images of things; but then the objects themselves will be before our eyes; now I have a partial knowledge, but then shall I know, even as I myself am known.