John 9:8

8 The neighbors and some people who had earlier seen this man begging said, "Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?"

John 9:8 Meaning and Commentary

John 9:8

The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen
him
For it seems the blind man was not a stranger, one that came out of the country to the city to beg; but a native of Jerusalem, that had long lived in a certain neighbourhood in it, and was well known to be what he was;

that he was blind;
the Alexandrian copy, and one of Beza's exemplars, and the Vulgate Latin version read, "that he was a beggar"; to which agree the Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions: wherefore they

said, is this not he that sat and begged?
they particularly remark his begging posture; he was not laid all along, as the lame man in ( Acts 3:2 ) ; nor did he go from door to door, as others were used to do, but he sat in some certain place, as blind men generally did; see ( Matthew 20:30 ) .

John 9:8 In-Context

6 After Jesus said this, he spit on the ground and made some mud with it and put the mud on the man's eyes.

7 Then he told the man, "Go and wash in the Pool of Siloam." (Siloam means Sent.) So the man went, washed, and came back seeing.

8 The neighbors and some people who had earlier seen this man begging said, "Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?"

9 Some said, "He is the one," but others said, "No, he only looks like him." The man himself said, "I am the man."

10 They asked, "How did you get your sight?"