John 9:8
Good News Translation
His neighbors, then, and the people who had seen him begging before this, asked, "Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?"

New Revised Standard Version
The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

Contemporary English Version
The man's neighbors and the people who had seen him begging wondered if he really could be the same man.

New American Bible
His neighbors and those who had seen him earlier as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the one who used to sit and beg?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The neighbours, therefore, and they who had seen him before that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said: This is he.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The neighbours, therefore, and they who had seen him before that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said: This is he.

Is not.

Ruth 1:19 So they went together, and came to Bethlehem. And when they were come into the city, the report was quickly spread among all: and the women said: This is that Noemi.

1 Samuel 21:11 And the servants of Achis, when they saw David, said to him: Is not this David, the king of the land? Did they not sing to him in their dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

sat.

1 Samuel 2:8 He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor from the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of glory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord's, and upon them he hath set the world.

Mark 10:46 And they came to Jericho. And as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a very great multitude, Bartimeus the blind man, the son of Timeus, sat by the way side begging.

Luke 16:20-22 And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores, . . .

Luke 18:35 Now it came to pass, when he drew nigh to Jericho, that a certain blind man sat by the way side, begging.

Acts 3:2-11 And a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was carried: whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them that went into the temple. . . .

Context
Jesus Heals the Man Born Blind
7And said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloe, which is interpreted, Sent. He went therefore and washed: and he came seeing. 8The neighbours, therefore, and they who had seen him before that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said: This is he. 9But others said: No, but he is like him. But he said: I am he.…
Cross References
Luke 1:58
And her neighbors and kinsfolks heard that the Lord had shewed his great mercy towards her: and they congratulated with her.

John 9:9
But others said: No, but he is like him. But he said: I am he.

Acts 3:2
And a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was carried: whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them that went into the temple.

Acts 3:10
And they knew him, that it was he who sat begging alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened to him.

John 9:7
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