Second Option - OR: Mark 4:1-9

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.”