⁸ The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

⁸ The neighbors therefore, and they that saw him aforetime, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

⁸ Therefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind said, "Is not this he who sat and begged?"