Mark 4:11
Then He said to them, "To you the secret of the kingdom of God has been entrusted, but to those who are on the outside everything is presented in stories, so that
Matthew 13:10-17
Then His disciples came up to Him and asked, "Why do you speak to them in stories?"
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus told the crowds all this in stories, and without a story He told them nothing,
Matthew 13:51-52
"Do you understand all these stories?" They answered Him, "Yes."
Mark 4:34
He did not tell them anything except by stories, but to His own disciples He kept on privately explaining everything.
Acts 8:30-31
Then Philip ran up and listened to him reading the prophet Isaiah, and he asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food belongs to full-grown men who on account of constant use have their faculties trained to distinguish good and evil.
2 Peter 3:16
speaking of it as he does in all his letters. In them are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsteady twist to their ruin, as they do the rest of the Scriptures.