Mark 4:11
"To you," He replied, "has been entrusted the secret truth concerning the Kingdom of God; but to those others outside your number all this is spoken in figurative language;
Matthew 13:10-17
(And His disciples came and asked Him, "Why do you speak to them in figurative language?"
Matthew 13:34-35
All this Jesus spoke to the people in figurative language, and except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them,
Matthew 13:51-52
"Have you understood all this?" He asked. "Yes," they said.
Mark 4:34
But except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them; while to His own disciples He expounded everything, in private.
Acts 8:30-31
So Philip ran up and heard the eunuch reading the Prophet Isaiah. "Do you understand what you are reading?" he asked.
Hebrews 5:14
Such persons are mere babes. But solid food is for adults--that is, for those who through constant practice have their spiritual faculties carefully trained to distinguish good from evil.
2 Peter 3:16
That is what he says in all his letters, when speaking in them of these things. In those letters there are some statements hard to understand, which ill-taught and unprincipled people pervert, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own ruin.