Mark 4:11
And he said unto them, To you it is granted to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but unto them that are without all things are delivered in parables:
Matthew 13:10-17
And the disciples came to Him and said, Why dost thou speak to them in parables?
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things spake Jesus in parables to the multitudes; and at this time He spake nothing to them without a parable:
Matthew 13:51-52
Then saith Jesus unto them, Did ye understand all these? they say unto Him, Yes, Lord: and He said unto them,
Mark 4:34
And He explained all to his disciples in private.
Acts 8:30-31
heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou understand what thou readest?
Hebrews 5:14
but firm food is for persons come to age, who by habit have their senses exercised to a discernment both of good and evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things: in which are some things hard to be understood, which the illiterate and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.