¹⁹ “Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”

¹⁴ But since they could see the man who had been healed standing there with them, there was nothing they could say.

⁸ His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”^{(A) 9} Some claimed that he was.

Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”

But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”

¹⁰ they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful,^(A) and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.