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S Jesus  was  one  day  going  out  of  the  Temple,  He  saw  a man  who  had  been  blind  from  his  birth. The disciples who were  with  Jesus  therefore  asked  Him:  “Master,  who  hath sinned, this  man  or  his  parents,  that  he  should  be  born  blind?” Jesus answered:  “Neither  hath  this  man  sinned,  nor  his  parents; but that  the  works  of  God  should  be  made  manifest  in  him.” When Jesus  had  said  this,  He  spat  on  the  ground  and  made clay with  the  spittle,  and  rubbed  the  clay  on  the  eyes  of  the man, and  said  to  him:  “Go,  and  wash  in  the  pool  of  Siloe.” He went,  washed,  and  came  away  seeing.

Now the  neighbours  that  had  known  him  wondered,  and  some of them  said:  “Is  not  this  he  that  sat  and  begged?”  But  the others denied  it,  saying:  “No,  but  he  is  like  him.”  The  man  himself, however,  exclaimed:  “I  am  he.”  Then  the  blind  man  was