The neighbors therefore, and they who before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
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Bede
AD 735
Thus he represents the state of the catechumen, who believes in Jesus, but does not, strictly speaking, know Him, not being yet washed. It fell to the Pharisees to confirm or deny the miracle.
