³ “Then the steward said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

¹¹ For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are ^(A)busybodies.

² And ^(A)a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, ^(B)to ^[a]ask alms from those who entered the temple;

⁸ Therefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was ^[a]blind said, “Is not this he who sat and begged?”

⁴ And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man,

²² So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to ^(A)Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.

²⁰ But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,

¹⁷ And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’

Jesus Heals Blind Bartimaeus^(A)

^46 (B)Now they came to Jericho. As He went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging.