As Jesus drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road begging.
As he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.
When he heard a crowd going by, he asked what was happening.
Then Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through.
Then his neighbors and those who had previously seen that he was blind were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”
And a man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those who were entering the temple courts.