stolen and protest the fact (see Psalm 37). Matthew 11:4–5 associates the poor with the blind, lame, lepers, deaf, and dead. Similarly, Luke 14:13, 21 lists the poor with the maimed, the lame, and the blind. Mark 12:42–43 tells of a “poor” widow (women socially unconnected to males were often portrayed as the prototypical victim). In Luke 16:19–31 the rich man is contrasted with poor Lazarus, a beggar full of sores. Revelation 3:17 describes the poor as wretched, pitiable, blind, and naked. In a