Giovanni 9:8

8 Laonde i vicini, e coloro che innanzi l’avean veduto cieco, dissero: Non è costui quel che sedeva, e mendicava?

Giovanni 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 ) .

Giovanni 9:8 In-Context

6 Avendo dette queste cose, sputò in terra, e fece del loto con lo sputo, e ne impiastrò gli occhi del cieco.

7 E gli disse: Va’, lavati nella pescina di Siloe il che s’interpreta: Mandato; egli adunque vi andò, e si lavò, e ritornò vedendo.

8 Laonde i vicini, e coloro che innanzi l’avean veduto cieco, dissero: Non è costui quel che sedeva, e mendicava?

9 Gli uni dicevano: Egli è l’istesso. Gli altri: Egli lo rassomiglia. Ed egli diceva: Io son desso.

10 Gli dissero adunque: Come ti sono stati aperti gli occhi?