Mark 4:11
And he said to them, To you hath been given the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to them, who are without, all things are done in parables; t
Matthew 13:10-17
And the disciples came and said to him, Why dost thou speak to them in parables?
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things Jesus spoke to the multitudes in parables, and without a parable he spoke nothing to them;
Matthew 13:51-52
Did ye understand all these things? They say to him, Yea.
Mark 4:34
But without a parable he did not speak to them; but in private he explained all things to his own disciples.
Acts 8:30-31
And Philip ran up, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Well, but dost thou understand what thou art reading?
Hebrews 5:14
but solid food belongs to those who are of full age, who by use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which things are some that are hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.