As Jesus was getting near Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road-side, begging.
As he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
Hearing a crowd going by, the man asked what was the matter;
Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town.
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?"
This man used to be set down every day at the gate of the Temple called 'the Beautiful Gate,' to beg of those who went in.