They came to Jericho, and as Jesus was leaving with his disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus son of Timaeus was sitting by the road.
As he scattered the seed in the field, some of it fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
There was also a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who used to be brought to the rich man's door,
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to sit beside Abraham at the feast in heaven. The rich man died and was buried,
As Jesus was coming near Jericho, there was a blind man sitting by the road, begging.
Jesus went on into Jericho and was passing through.
His neighbors, then, and the people who had seen him begging before this, asked, “Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?”