He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy, To set him among nobles; and he maketh them inherit a throne of glory; For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's, and he hath set the world upon them.

I have been young, and now am old, and I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread:

Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek their bread far from their desolate places;

And they come to Jericho, and as he was going out from Jericho, and his disciples and a large crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, the blind man, sat by the wayside begging.

And there was a poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his gateway full of sores,

And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.

And it came to pass when he came into the neighbourhood of Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging.

The neighbours therefore, and those who used to see him before, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that was sitting and begging?

and a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they placed every day at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who were going into the temple;