Matthew 13:13-14
for this reason I speak to them in parables; because though they see, they will not see; and though they hear, they will not hear, nor understand.
Matthew 13:35
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, I will publish things which have been concealed from the foundation of the world.
Mark 4:33-34
And in many such parables spake He the word to them, as they had ability to hear it: but spake not to them without a parable.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For we see now as through a mirror obscurely: but then we shall see face to face. Now I know but in part, but then I shall know even as I am known.