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The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"
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Some said, "It is he"; others said, "No, but he is like him." He said, "I am the man."
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They said to him, "Then how were your eyes opened?"
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He answered, "The man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Silo'am and wash'; so I went and washed and received my sight."
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They said to him, "Where is he?" He said, "I do not know."
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They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.
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Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
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The Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see."
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Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was a division among them.
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So they again said to the blind man, "What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."
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The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight,