Ezekiel 20:49
Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! They are saying of me, 'Is he not a maker of parables?'"
John 16:25
"I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.
Ezekiel 17:2
"Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
Matthew 13:13-14
This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
Acts 17:18
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, "What does this babbler wish to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities"--because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.