9:8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously 1 as a beggar began saying, 2 “Is this not the man 3 who used to sit and beg?” 9:9 Some people said, 4 “This is the man!” 5 while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” 6 The man himself 7 kept insisting, “I am the one!” 8 9:10 So they asked him, 9 “How then were you made to see?” 10 9:11 He replied, 11 “The man called Jesus made mud, 12 smeared it 13 on my eyes and told me, 14 ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and was able to see.” 15 9:12 They said 16 to him, “Where is that man?” 17 He replied, 18 “I don’t know.”