Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in parable{s (LXX/NT)}. I will utter dark sayings of old,
Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a parable. I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb, and a figure, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Matthew 13:11-13
And having answered, he said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to those men it has not been given.
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes, and he did not speak to them independent of a parable,
Mark 4:34
And he did not speak to them apart from a parable, but privately he explained all things to his disciples.