John 9:8

and some of the people that lived near him, and the people that used to see him asking for money, they were there. And they asked each other, “Is he the man that sat next to the road and asked for money all the time?”

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In The King James Version

The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

In Context

7Then Jesus said to him, “Go and wash your eyes in the pool called Siloam.” (That word Siloam means sent.) So the man went and washed his eyes, and he could see. He came back,

9Some people said, “Yes, that’s him.” But other people said, “No, he’s another man. He just looks like the blind man.” But the man kept on saying, “I am the man that was blind.”

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Cross References

Luke 16:20And there was a very poor man. His name was Lazarus. He had a lot of sores on his body, and he was hungry, but he had nothing to eat. So he used to lie down at the gate of the rich man’s house.

Matthew Henry on John 9:2-8

Sight Given to One Born Blind. 1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6 When he had thus… Read the whole commentary →

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