And they come into Jericho. And He and His disciples and a considerable crowd having gone out from Jericho, a son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus the blind, sat beside the highway begging.
And in his sowing, some fell by the roadside, and the birds came and ate them.
And there was a certain poor one, Lazarus by name, who had been thrown at his doorway, being covered with sores,
And it came to be, the poor one died and was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich one also died and was buried.
And it happened as He drew near to Jericho, a certain blind one sat by the highway, begging.
And going in, He passed through Jericho.
Therefore the neighbors and the ones formerly seeing him, that he was blind, said, Is this one not the one sitting and begging?