5. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.’
6. After saying this, he spat on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.
7. ‘Go,’ he told him, ‘wash in the Pool of Siloam’ (this word means ‘Sent’). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
8. His neighbours and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, ‘Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?’
9. Some claimed that he was.Others said, ‘No, he only looks like him.’But he himself insisted, ‘I am the man.’