²² So he replied to the messengers, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy^[a] are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.^{(A) 23} Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”

¹⁰ All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor,^(A) the very thing I had been eager to do all along.