Psa 49:4, 78:2, Mat 13:3, 10, 34-35, Mar 3:23, 4:11, 34 | ESV | STEP | I will incline my ear to a proverb ; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre .

iCited from Ps. 78:2

j[ver. 11; Rom. 16:25, 26; 1 Cor. 2:7]

k ch. 25:34; Luke 11:50; [John 17:24; Eph. 1:4; 1 Pet. 1:20]

lFor ver. 23-27, see Matt. 12:25-29; Luke 11:17-22

m Matt. 19:11; Col. 1:27; [1 Cor. 2:6-10; 1 John 2:20, 27]; See Matt. 11:25

nSee Rom. 16:25

o 1 Cor. 5:12, 13; Col. 4:5; 1 Thess. 4:12; 1 Tim. 3:7

p[John 16:25]

q ver. 10; [ch. 13:3]

r[2 Pet. 1:20]

Psalms 49:4

4 I will incline my ear to ^aa proverb;
I will solve my ^briddle to the music of the lyre.

Psalms 78:2

2 ^cI will open my mouth ^din a parable;
I will utter dark sayings from of old,

Matthew 13:3

3 And ^ehe told them many things in parables, saying: ^f“A sower went out to sow.

Matthew 13:10

The Purpose of the Parables

10 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

Matthew 13:34-35

Prophecy and Parables

34 ^gAll these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable. 35 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: ^{▼▼Some manuscripts Isaiah the prophet}

ⁱ“I will open my mouth in parables;
^jI will utter what has been hidden ^ksince the foundation of the world.”

Mark 3:23

23 ^lAnd he called them to him and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

Mark 4:11

11 And he said to them, ^m“To you has been given ⁿthe secret of the kingdom of God, but for ^othose outside everything is in parables,

Mark 4:34

34 He did not speak to them ^pwithout a parable, but ^qprivately to his own disciples he ^rexplained everything.