John 9:8 - Exposition
The neighbors therefore, and they who beheld him aforetime that (or, because) he was a beggar . £ This is the first time that his well-known position is mentioned, and (if we translate ὅτι "because") the very fact of his begging (probably with loud voice) had made him a well-known individual. Said, Is not this he that sat and begged ?
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