Psalm 78:2
I will offer a parable [with] my mouth. I will pour out riddles from long ago,
Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will {propound} my riddle on a lyre.
Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb and an expression, words of wisdom and their riddles.
Matthew 13:11-13
And he answered [and] said to them, "To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to those [people] it has not been granted.
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus spoke all these [things] to the crowds in parables, and he was saying nothing to them without a parable,
Mark 4:34
And he did not speak to them without a parable, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.