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.

And coming into His hometown, He began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, "Where did this Man get this wisdom and the miracles?

Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Jude?

And they were all amazed and were marveling, saying to one another, "Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

And how [is it that] we hear, each in our own language in which we were born?

Now when they observed the boldness of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

And all those who heard were astounded, and were saying, "Is this not the one who destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem, and has come here for that purpose, so that he might take them having been bound, to the chief priests?"

And he took off his clothes, and prophesied before them; and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they said, Is Saul also among the prophets?

And the Jews were marveling, saying, "How is this Man learned, since He has not been educated?"