And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are outside, all these things are done in parables:

And Philip ran to him, and heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said, Do you understand what you read?

The words

The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails firmly fixed by the masters of assemblies, which are given by one shepherd.

Dark

I will incline my ear to a proverb: I will disclose my riddles upon the harp.

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

All these things spoke Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spoke he not unto them:

But solid food belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

General references

Then shall you understand righteousness, and justice, and equity; yea, every good path.