Psalm 78:2

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

I will incline my ear to a proverb;
I will express my riddle on the harp.

To understand a proverb and a figure,
The words of the wise and their riddles.

Jesus answered them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.

All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak to them without a parable.

and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

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

I will incline my ear to a proverb;

I will express my riddle on the harp.

Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

To understand a proverb and a figure,
The words of the wise and their riddles.

Jesus answered them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.

and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying,

For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.