Mark 4:11
And he said to them, "To you has been intrusted the secret of the reign of God, but to those outsiders, everything is offered in figures,
Matthew 13:10-17
His disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in figures?"
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus said all this to the crowds in figures, and told them nothing except in figures,
Matthew 13:51-52
"Do you understand all this?" They said to him, "Yes."
Mark 4:34
He said nothing to them except in figures, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.
Acts 8:30-31
Philip ran up and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and he said to him, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
Hebrews 5:14
But full-grown men have a right to solid food, for their faculties are trained by practice to distinguish right and wrong.
2 Peter 3:16
speaking of it as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which ignorant, unsteadfast people twist to their own ruin, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures.