¹⁹ They asked them, “Is this your son? Was he born blind? If so, how can he now see?”

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

⁸ His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar asked each other, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?” ⁹ Some said he was, and others said, “No, he just looks like him!”

But the beggar kept saying, “Yes, I am the same one!”

¹⁰ When they realized he was the lame beggar they had seen so often at the Beautiful Gate, they were absolutely astounded!