Ezekiel 20:49
And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
John 16:25
These things I have spoken to you in allegories; the hour is coming that I will no longer speak to you in allegories, but will declare to you openly concerning the Father.
Ezekiel 17:2
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel,
Matthew 13:13-14
For this cause I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear nor understand;
Acts 17:18
But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection to them.