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His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar asked each other, “Is this the same fellow—that beggar?”

Some said yes, and some said no. “It can’t be the same man,” they thought, “but he surely looks like him!”

And the beggar said, “I am the same man!”

10 Then they asked him how in the world he could see. What had happened?

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Therefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was [a]blind said, “Is not this he who sat and begged?”

Some said, “This is he.” Others said, [b]“He is like him.”

He said, “I am he.

10 Therefore they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”

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Footnotes

  1. John 9:8 NU a beggar
  2. John 9:9 NU “No, but he is like him.”

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

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

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

10 “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.

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