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.

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?"