Mark 4:11
he answered, you are admitted into the secret of the gospel-dispensation: but to unbelievers every thing is couch'd in parables; because,
Matthew 13:10-17
And the disciples came, and said to him, why do you speak to them in parables?
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things spake Jesus to the multitude in parables, and did not discourse to them without some parable.
Matthew 13:51-52
Then Jesus said to them, have ye understood all this?
Mark 4:34
his stile in publick was figurative, but he explain'd every thing to his disciples in private.
Acts 8:30-31
Philip ran to him, and hearing him read the prophet Esaias, said, do you understand what you read?
Hebrews 5:14
such solid nourishment is only fit for such as are arriv'd at their full growth and strength, whose senses have been exercis'd in distinguishing what is good, and what is prejudicial.
2 Peter 3:16
as it were in all his epistles, where he takes notice of these things: in which there are some passages that are difficult to understand, which the illiterate, and unstable wrest, as they do the rest of the scriptures, to their own ruin.