Upon this his neighbors, and those who had formerly known him by sight as a beggar, exclaimed: "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"
They came to Jericho. When Jesus was going out of the town with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road-side.
And her neighbors and relations, hearing of the great goodness of the Lord to her, came to share her joy.
As Jesus was getting near Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road-side, begging.
"Yes," some said, "it is"; while others said: "No, but he is like him." The man himself said: "I am he."