Jean 9:8

8 Or, les voisins et ceux qui avaient vu auparavant qu'il était aveugle, disaient: N'est-ce pas là celui qui se tenait assis, et qui demandait l'aumône?

Jean 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 ) .

Jean 9:8 In-Context

6 Ayant dit cela, il cracha à terre, et fit de la boue avec sa salive, et il oignit de cette boue les yeux de l'aveugle,

7 Et il lui dit: Va, et te lave au réservoir de Siloé (ce qui signifie Envoyé). Il y alla donc et se lava, et il s'en alla voyant clair.

8 Or, les voisins et ceux qui avaient vu auparavant qu'il était aveugle, disaient: N'est-ce pas là celui qui se tenait assis, et qui demandait l'aumône?

9 Les uns disaient: C'est lui; d'autres: Il lui ressemble; lui disait: C'est moi-même.

10 Ils lui dirent donc: Comment tes yeux ont-ils été ouverts?