They came to Jericho. When Jesus was going out of the town with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road-side.

Near his gateway there had been laid a beggar named Lazarus, who was covered with sores,

After a time the beggar died, and was taken by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.

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?"