Now as they went out from Jericho, a great crowd followed Him.

And behold, two blind men sitting alongside the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, "Have pity on us, O Lord, Son of David!"

And they came to Jericho. And as He was going out from Jericho along with His disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus the blind man, the son of Timaeus, was sitting alongside the road begging.

And when he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!"

But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores, who had been placed at his gate,

and longing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. And even the dogs came and would lick his sores.

He lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises the needy from the dunghill; to seat him with the princes of the people, and causing them to inherit the throne of glory;

Therefore the neighbors and those who previously saw him, that he was blind, were saying, "Is not this he who sat and begged?"

And a man lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they would lay each day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple;