Now it came to pass, as He was coming near Jericho, that a certain blind man sat alongside the road begging.
And as he sowed, some seed fell alongside the road; and the birds came and devoured them.
And hearing a crowd traveling through the city, he asked what this was.
And having entered, He passed through Jericho.
Therefore the neighbors and those who previously saw him, that he was blind, were saying, "Is not this he who sat and begged?"
And a man lame from his mother's womb, being carried, whom they would lay each day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple;