Mark 4:11
And He said to them, To you it has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them who are without, all things are in parables:
Matthew 13:10-17
And His disciples coming, said to Him; Wherefore do you speak to them in parables?
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus spoke all of these things to the multitudes in parables; and without a parable He was not speaking to them:
Matthew 13:51-52
Do you understand all these things? They say to Him, Yea.
Mark 4:34
And without a parable He did not speak to them: and He privately expounded all things to His disciples.
Acts 8:30-31
And Philip running forth, heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said; Whether do you understand what you are reading?
Hebrews 5:14
but solid food belongs to the perfect, those having their senses disciplined by use unto the discernment both of the good and the evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his epistles, speaking in the same concerning these things; in which there are some things hard to understand, which the unlearned and unestablished wrest, as they also do the other scriptures, to their own destruction.