Whereupon the neighbours and those to whom he had been a familiar sight as a beggar, said, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"
As he approached Jericho, it chanced that a blind man was seated beside the road begging.
Then they reached Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a considerable crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, the blind beggar who sat beside the road,
When her neighbours and kinsfolk heard of the Lord's great mercy to her they rejoiced with her,
Some said, "It is"; others said, "No, but it is like him." He said, "I am the man."