³ “The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg—

¹¹ We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies.^(A)

² Now a man who was lame from birth^(A) was being carried to the temple gate^(B) called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg^(C) from those going into the temple courts.

⁸ His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”^(A)

⁴ “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think,

²² “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.

²⁰ At his gate was laid a beggar^(A) named Lazarus, covered with sores

¹⁷ He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’

Blind Bartimaeus Receives His Sight^(A)

⁴⁶ Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (which means “son of Timaeus”), was sitting by the roadside begging.