Then they reached Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting beside the road.

"And a certain beggar named Lazarus was thrown at his door.

"But in the course of time the beggar died; and he was carried by angels into Abraham's bosom.

As Jesus drew near to Jericho, there was a blind man who sat by the wayside begging.

Upon this the neighbors and those who used to know him by sight as a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

when a man lame from his birth was carried along, who was wont to be laid each day near the gate of the Temple called the Beautiful Gate, to ask alms of those who were going into the Temple.