Ezekiel 20:49
Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?
John 16:25
These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell you plainly of 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
Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Acts 17:18
And certain also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What would this babbler say? others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.