And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple.
Now at Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet. He was crippled from birth and had never walked.
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?”
And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,
and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.
As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging.
And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.
For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
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