^6-7 Having said this, he spat on the ground and made a sort of clay with the saliva. This he applied to the man’s eyes and said, “Go and wash in the pool of Siloam.” (Siloam means “one who has been sent”.) So the man went off and washed and came home with his sight restored.

⁸ His neighbours and the people who had often seen him before as a beggar remarked, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”