⁸ His neighbors and some others who had seen him begging said, “Look! Is this the same man who always sits and begs?”

⁹ Some people said, “Yes! He is the one.” But others said, “No, he can’t be the same man. He only looks like him.”

So the man himself said, “I am that same man.”

¹⁰ They asked, “What happened? How did you get your sight?”