9:8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously 3 as a beggar began saying, 4 “Is this not the man 5 who used to sit and beg?”
1 tn Or “you do not receive.”
2 tn Or “you will receive.”
3 tn Or “formerly.”
4 tn An ingressive force (“began saying”) is present here because the change in status of the blind person provokes this new response from those who knew him.
5 tn Grk “the one.”