³ Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

¹¹ For we hear that some of you are living irresponsibly, mere busybodies, not doing any work.^(A)

² And a man lame from birth was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those entering the temple.^(A)

⁸ The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

⁴ For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone,

²² The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham.^[a] The rich man also died and was buried.^(A)

²⁰ And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,^(A)

¹⁷ And he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’

The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus

⁴⁶ They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside.