Mark 4:11
And He said to them, "To you has been given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those without all things are done in parables;
Matthew 13:10-17
And the disciples, having come near, said to Him, "Wherefore dost Thou speak to them in parables?"
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things Jesus spake to the multitudes in parables; and, without a parable, He was wont to speak nothing to them;
Matthew 13:51-52
"Did ye understand all these things?" They say to Him, "Yes;"
Mark 4:34
And without a parable He spake not to them; but privately to His disciples He explained all things.
Acts 8:30-31
And Philip, having run near, heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you, then, understand what you are reading?"
Hebrews 5:14
but solid food is for full-grown men, who by practice have their senses trained for the discernment both of good and evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.