Others said, “This is the Christ!” But still others said, “No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?

Some people said, “This is the man!” while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” The man himself kept insisting, “I am the one!”

So the disciples began to say to one another, “No one brought him anything to eat, did they?”

So they asked him, “How then were you made to see?”

Thus the people who had come to mourn said, “Look how much he loved him!”

There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.”

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”

So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?”

Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

When they heard these words, some of the crowd began to say, “This really is the Prophet!”

Many of them were saying, “He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?”

Others said, “These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?”

So they kept on repeating, “What is the meaning of what he says, ‘In a little while’? We do not understand what he is talking about.”

They came up to him again and again and said, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they struck him repeatedly in the face.

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, “This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?”

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, “What I have told you from the beginning.

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”