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.

And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside.

His neighbours and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, ‘Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?’

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