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.
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.
Matthew 13:10-11
Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable.
Mark 4:13
And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
John 10:6
This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
John 16:12
"I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
John 16:16-17
"A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me."
John 16:28-29
I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father."
Acts 2:33-36
Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
2 Corinthians 3:12-18
Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,
2 Corinthians 4:2
But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.