- Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes.
- "Go," he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
- His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, "Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?"
- Some claimed that he was. Others said, "No, he only looks like him." But he himself insisted, "I am the man."
- "How then were your eyes opened?" they demanded.
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- When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes,
- and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated, Sent) So he went away and washed, and came back seeing.
- Therefore the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, "Is not this the one who used to sit and beg?"
- Others were saying, "This is he," still others were saying, "No, but he is like him." He kept saying, "I am the one."
- So they were saying to him, "How then were your eyes opened?"
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