2024-01-24 04:44:57
Reading of the holy gospel according to Saint Mark
Mc 4, 1-20
At that time, Jesus began to teach once more by the lake, and such a large crowd gathered that Jesus had to get into a boat; There he sat, while the people were on land, next to the shore. He taught them many things with parables and said to them:
“Listen. The sower went out to sow. As he was sowing, some grains fell on the sidewalk; the birds came and ate them. Others fell on rocky ground, where there was hardly any soil; as the soil was not deep, the plants sprouted immediately. ; but when the sun rose, they were burned, and for lack of roots, they withered. Other grains fell among thorns; the thorns grew, choked the plants and did not allow them to mature. Finally, the other grains fell on good soil; the plants They sprang up and grew and produced thirty, sixty or a hundredfold.” And Jesus added: “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
When they were alone, his companions and the Twelve asked him what the parable meant. Then Jesus said to them: “To you has been entrusted the secret of the Kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, everything is dark; so, no matter how hard you look, you will not see; no matter how much you hear, you will not understand.” unless they repent and are forgiven.”
And he said to them: “If you do not understand this parable, how will you understand all the others? ‘The sower’ sows the word.
‘The grains of the path’ are those in whom the word is sown, but when they finish hearing it, Satan comes and takes away the word sown in them.
‘Those who receive the seed on rocky ground’ are those who, upon hearing the word, immediately receive it with joy; But they have no roots, they are fickle, and as soon as a problem or a setback arises because of the word, they give up.
‘Those who receive the seed among thorns’ are those who hear the word; but because of the worries of this life, the seduction of riches and the desire for everything else, which invades them, they choke the word and make it sterile.
Finally, ‘those who receive the seed on good soil’ are those who hear the word, accept it and produce a harvest: some, thirty; others, sixty; and others, a hundredfold.”
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