Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

And they came to Jericho: and when he was going out of Jericho, with his disciples and a great number of people, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind man, was seated by the wayside, with his hand out for money.

And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,

And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.

And it came about that when he got near Jericho, a certain blind man was seated by the side of the road, making requests for money from those who went by.

Then the neighbours and others who had seen him before in the street, with his hand out for money, said, Is not this the man who got money from people?

And a certain man who from birth had had no power in his legs, was taken there every day, and put down at the door of the Temple which is named Beautiful, requesting money from those who went into the Temple;