⁶ With these words, he spat on the ground, and made some mud out of his spittle. He spread the mud on the man’s eyes.

⁷ “Off you go,” he said to him, “and wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “sent”). So he went off and washed. When he came back, he could see.

⁸ His neighbors, and the people who used to see him begging, remarked on this.

“Isn’t this the man,” they said, “who used to sit here and beg?”