Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
Psalm 49:4
I will incline mine 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 he answered and said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:
Mark 4:34
and without a parable spake he not unto them: but privately to his own disciples he expounded all things.