Therefore the neighbors and those who previously saw him, that he was blind, were saying, "Is not this he who sat and begged?"

Some said, "This is he." Others said, "He looks like him." He kept saying, "I am [he]."

Then they recognized that this was the one sitting for the alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with astonishment and amazement because of that which had happened to him.

But because they saw standing with them the man who had been healed, they had nothing to say against [them].