💫WEB · John 9:8
What does John 9:8 mean?
"The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”"
— John 9:8 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,
and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”
Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.” He said, “I am he.”
They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”
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