Matthew 13:11-13
He replied, "Because it is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these people.
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus said all this to the crowds in parables; he never spoke to them except in a parable ??35 to fulfil what had been said by the prophet, I will open my mouth in parables, I will speak out what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.
Mark 4:34
he never spoke to them except by way of parable, but in private he explained everything 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
Dark sayings
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I will
Matthew 13:13
This is why I speak to them in parables, because for all their seeing they do not see and for all their hearing they do not hear or understand.
Dark sayings
Matthew 13:11
He replied, "Because it is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these people.
Mark 4:34
he never spoke to them except by way of parable, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.
General references
Matthew 5:2
and he opened his lips and began to teach them. He said:
Mark 4:22
Nothing is hidden except to be disclosed, nothing concealed except to be revealed.