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the neighbours, therefore, and those seeing him before, that he was blind, said, `Is not this he who is sitting and begging?'
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others said -- `This is he;' and others -- `He is like to him;' he himself said, -- `I am [he].'
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They said, therefore, to him, `How were thine eyes opened?'
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he answered and said, `A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;'
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they said, therefore, to him, `Where is that one?' he saith, `I have not known.'
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They bring him to the Pharisees who once [was] blind,
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and it was a sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
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Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, `Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash -- and I see.'
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Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, `This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;' others said, `How is a man -- a sinful one -- able to do such signs?' and there was a division among them.
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They said to the blind man again, `Thou -- what dost thou say of him -- that he opened thine eyes?'
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and he said -- `He is a prophet.' The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him that he was blind and did receive sight, till that they called the parents of him who received sight,