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.
John 16:2
{They will expel you from the synagogue}, but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.
Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will {propound} my riddle on a lyre.
Psalm 78:2
I will offer a parable [with] my mouth. I will pour out riddles from long ago,
Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb and an expression, words of wisdom and their riddles.
Matthew 13:10-11
And the disciples came up [and] said to him, "{Why} do you speak to them in parables?"
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus spoke all these [things] to the crowds in parables, and he was saying nothing to them without a parable,
Mark 4:13
And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? And how will you understand all the parables?
John 10:6
Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what it was that he was saying to them.
John 16:12
I still have many [things] to say to you, but you are not able to bear [them] now.
John 16:16-17
"A little [while] and you will see me no more, and again a little [while] and you will see me.
John 16:28-29
I have gone out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father."
Acts 2:33-36
Therefore, having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out this that you see and hear.
2 Corinthians 3:12-18
Therefore, [because we] have such a hope, we use much boldness,
2 Corinthians 4:2
but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.