John 9:8-12

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.”

[9:8]  ¹ tn Or “formerly.”

[9:8]  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.

[9:8]  ³ tn Grk “the one.”

[9:9]  ⁴ tn Grk “Others were saying.”

[9:9]  ⁵ tn Grk “This is the one.”

[9:9]  ⁶ tn Grk “No, but he is like him.”

[9:9]  ⁷ tn Grk “That one”; the referent (the man himself) is specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:9]  ⁸ tn Grk “I am he.”

[9:10]  ⁷ tn Grk “So they were saying to him.”

[9:10]  ⁸ tn Grk “How then were your eyes opened” (an idiom referring to restoration of sight).

[9:11]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “That one answered.”

[9:11]  ¹¹ tn Or “clay” (moistened earth of a clay-like consistency).

[9:11]  ¹² tn Grk “and smeared.” Direct objects in Greek were often omitted when obvious from the context.

[9:11]  ¹³ tn Grk “said to me.”

[9:11]  ¹⁴ tn Or “and I gained my sight.”

[9:12]  ¹³ tn Grk “And they said.”

[9:12]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “that one.” “Man” is more normal English style for the referent.

[9:12]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “He said.”