As he approached Jericho, it chanced that a blind man was seated beside the road begging.
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?"
Then he entered Jericho. And as he passed through it,
when a man lame from birth was carried past, who used to be laid every day at what was called the 'Beautiful Gate' of the temple, to ask alms from those who entered the temple.
and as he sowed some seeds fell on the road and the birds came and ate them up.
When he heard the crowd passing he inquired what was the matter,