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His neighbors, then, and the people who had seen him begging before this, asked, "Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?"
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Some said, "He is the one," but others said, "No he isn't; he just looks like him." So the man himself said, "I am the man."
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"How is it that you can now see?" they asked him.
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He answered, "The man called Jesus made some mud, rubbed it on my eyes, and told me to go to Siloam and wash my face. So I went, and as soon as I washed, I could see."
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"Where is he?" they asked. "I don't know," he answered.
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Then they took to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
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The day that Jesus made the mud and cured him of his blindness was a Sabbath.
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The Pharisees, then, asked the man again how he had received his sight. He told them, "He put some mud on my eyes; I washed my face, and now I can see."
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Some of the Pharisees said, "The man who did this cannot be from God, for he does not obey the Sabbath law." Others, however, said, "How could a man who is a sinner perform such miracles as these?" And there was a division among them.
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So the Pharisees asked the man once more, "You say he cured you of your blindness - well, what do you say about him?" "He is a prophet," the man answered.
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The Jewish authorities, however, were not willing to believe that he had been blind and could now see, until they called his parents