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His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"
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"Yes it is," replied some of them. "No it is not," said others, "but he is like him." His own statement was, "I am the man."
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"How then were your eyes opened?" they asked.
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"He whose name is Jesus," he answered, "made clay and smeared my eyes with it, and then told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and obtained sight."
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"Where is he?" they inquired, but the man did not know.
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They brought him to the Pharisees--the man who had been blind.
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Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened the man's eyes was the Sabbath.
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So the Pharisees renewed their questioning as to how he had obtained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he replied, "and I washed, and now I can see."
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This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others.
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And there was a division among them. So again they asked the once blind man, "What is your account of him? --for he opened your eyes." "He is a Prophet," he replied.
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The Jews, however, did not believe the statement concerning him--that he had been blind and had obtained his sight--until they called his parents and asked them,