Mark 4:11
And he said to them, To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are without, all things are in parables:
Matthew 13:10-17
And when his disciples came, they said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things spake Jesus in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable he spake not to them:
Matthew 13:51-52
Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things?
Mark 4:34
And without a parable spake he not unto them; but in private he explained them all to his disciples.
Acts 8:30-31
Then Philip running up to him, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah; and he said, Well! but dost thou understand what thou art reading?
Hebrews 5:14
But solid nourishment is proper for grown men, even as many as by habit have their organs of perception exercised for the discernment both of good and evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, of which some are difficult to be understood, which the uninstructed and the unstable torture, as indeed they do the rest of the scriptures unto their own destruction.