As He was drawing near Jericho, a certain blind man sat along the way begging.
While he sowed, some seeds fell beside the path, and the birds came and devoured them.
Hearing a crowd passing by, he asked what it meant.
Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.
The neighbors and those who had previously seen that he was blind said, “Is this not he who sat and begged?”
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.
He raises up the poor out of the dust and lifts up the oppressed from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit a throne of glory. “For the pillars of the earth belong to the Lord, and He has set the world upon them.