Ezekiel 20:49
Then I said, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Does he not speak parables?
John 16:25
I have spoken these things unto you in proverbs, but the hour comes when I shall no longer speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father.
Ezekiel 17:2
Son of man, propose a figure and compose an enigma unto the house of Israel
Matthew 13:13-14
Therefore, I speak to them in parables because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Acts 17:18
Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? others, He seems to be a setter forth of new gods, because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection.