Judges 14:12-14

12And Samson said to them, a“Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within bthe seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty cchanges of clothes, 13but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.” And they said to him, “Put your riddle, that we may hear it.” 14And he said to them,

“Out of the eater came something to eat.
Out of the strong came something sweet.”
And in three days they could not solve the riddle.

Psalms 49:4

4I will incline my ear to da proverb;
I will solve my eriddle to the music of the lyre.

Proverbs 1:5-6

5Let the wise hear and fincrease in learning,
and the one who understands obtain guidance,
6to understand a proverb and a saying,
gthe words of the wise and their hriddles.

Matthew 13:11

11And he answered them, iTo you it has been given to know jthe secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

Matthew 13:35

35This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet:
Some manuscripts Isaiah the prophet


l“I will open my mouth in parables;
mI will utter what has been hidden nsince the foundation of the world.”

Mark 4:34

34He did not speak to them owithout a parable, but pprivately to his own disciples he qexplained everything.

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