Ezekiel 20:49
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Does he not speak parables?
John 16:25
These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time comes, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show 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
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 strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.