John 16:25
These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs. The time will come when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs: but I shall show you plainly from my father.
John 16:2
They shall excommunicate you: yea the time shall come, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth God true service.
Psalm 49:4
I will incline mine ear to the parable, and show my dark speech upon the harp.
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in similitudes, and will speak forth things which have been kept secret from the beginning of the world;
Proverbs 1:6
and he that is endued with understanding shall obtain wit to perceive a parable, and the interpretation thereof; the words of the wise, and the dark speeches of the same.
Matthew 13:10-11
And the disciples came, and said to him, "Why speakest thou to them in parables?"
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things spake Jesus unto the people by similitudes, and with out similitudes spake he nothing to them,
Mark 4:13
And he said unto them, "Perceive ye not this similitude? How then should ye understand all other similitudes?
John 10:6
This similitude spake Jesus unto them. But they understood not, what things they were, which he spake unto them.
John 16:12
I have yet many things to say unto you, But ye cannot bear them away now.
John 16:16-17
"After a while ye shall not see me, and again after a while ye shall see me: For I go to the father."
John 16:28-29
"I went out from the father, and came into the world: and I leave the world again, and go to the father."
Acts 2:33-36
Since now that he by the righthand of God exalted is, and hath received of the father the promise of the holy ghost, he hath shed forth that which ye now see and hear.
2 Corinthians 3:12-18
Seeing then that we have such trust, we use great boldness;
2 Corinthians 4:2
but have cast from us the cloaks of unhonesty, and walk not in craftiness, neither corrupt we the word of God: but walk in open truth, and report ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.