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
1 tn Or “formerly.”
2 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.
3 tn Grk “the one.”
4 tn Grk “Others were saying.”
5 tn Grk “This is the one.”
6 tn Grk “No, but he is like him.”
7 tn Grk “That one”; the referent (the man himself) is specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Grk “I am he.”