Second Option - Gospel: Mark 4:1-10, 13-20

¹ Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.
² And he taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:
³ ”Listen! A sower went out to sow.
⁴ And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
⁵ Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it had not much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil;
⁶ and when the sun rose it was scorched, and since it had no root it withered away.
⁷ Other seed fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.
⁸ And other seeds fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”
⁹ And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
¹⁰ And when he was alone, those who were about him with the twelve asked him concerning the parables.
¹³ And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
¹⁴ The sower sows the word.
¹⁵ And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown; when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word which is sown in them.
¹⁶ And these in like manner are the ones sown upon rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;
¹⁷ and they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.
¹⁸ And others are the ones sown among thorns; they are those who hear the word,
¹⁹ but the cares of the world, and the delight in riches, and the desire for other things, enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
²⁰ But those that were sown upon the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”