Ezekiel 20:49
Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, they are saying about me, '[Is] he not posing a parable?'"
John 16:25
"I have said these [things] to you in figurative sayings. An hour is coming when I will speak to you in figurative sayings no longer, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
Ezekiel 17:2
"Son of man, tell a riddle and quote a proverb to the house of Israel,
Matthew 13:13-14
For this [reason] 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
And even some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were saying, "What does this babbler want to say?" But [others said], "He appears to be a proclaimer of foreign deities," because he was proclaiming the good news [about] Jesus and the resurrection.