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Therefore the neighbors, and those who previouslysaw him as a beggar, were saying, "Is not this the one who used to 1sit and beg?"
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Others were saying, "This is he," still others were saying, "No, but he is like him." He kept saying, "I am the one."
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So they were saying to him, "Howthen were your eyesopened?"
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He answered, "The man who is calledJesusmadeclay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to 2Siloam and wash '; so I wentaway and washed, and I receivedsight."
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They said to him, "Where is He?" He said, "I do not know."
Controversy over the Man
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who was formerlyblind.
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3Now it was a Sabbath on the daywhenJesusmade the clay and opened his eyes.
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4Then the Phariseesalso were asking him againhow he received his sight. And he said to them, "He appliedclay to my eyes, and I washed, and I see."
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Thereforesome of the Pharisees were saying, "Thisman is not from God, because He 5does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "Howcan a man who is a sinnerperformsuch6signs?" And 7there was a divisionamong them.
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So they said to the blindman8again, "What do you sayabout Him, since He opened your eyes?" And he said, "He is a 9prophet."
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10The Jewsthen did not believe it of him, that he had beenblind and had receivedsight, until they called the parents of the veryone who had received his sight,