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And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of [a]Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went away and washed, and came back seeing. So the neighbors, and those who used to know him as a beggar, said, “Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?” Some said, “It is he.” Still others said, “No, but he looks like him.” But he kept saying, “I am the man.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 9:7 The ancient town of Siloam is now an Arab village named Silwan. It is east of Jerusalem and south of the Old City. The pool of Siloam was fed by the Gihon Spring in the Kidron Valley through a channel (Hezekiah’s tunnel) that carried water into Jerusalem.

“Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam”(A) (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.(B)

His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”(C) Some claimed that he was.

Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”

But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”

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