A man lame from birth was being carried, whom people placed daily at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to ask alms from those who entered the temple.
There was also a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores, who had been placed at his gate,
As He was drawing near Jericho, a certain blind man sat along the way begging.
The neighbors and those who had previously seen that he was blind said, “Is this not he who sat and begged?”
and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your alms are remembered before God.
When he looked intently at him, he was afraid, and said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have come up as a memorial before God.
In Lystra there sat a man, crippled in his feet, who had never walked and was lame from birth.
They knew that it was he who sat for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what happened to him.
for the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was over forty years old.