Others said, “It’s him all right!” But others objected, “It’s not the same man at all. It just looks like him.” He said, “It’s me, the very one.”

Others were saying, “This is he,” still others were saying, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the one.”

Some said he was, and others said, “No, he just looks like him!” But the beggar kept saying, “Yes, I am the same one!”

Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.

Some said, “He is the one,” but others said, “No, he only looks like him.” The man himself said, “I am the man.”

Others said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am he.

Some claimed that he was. Others said, “No, he only looks like him.” But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”

Some said, “It is he.” Still others said, “No, but he looks like him.” But he kept saying, “I am the man.”

Some said, “No, it can’t be him!” Others said, “But it looks just like him—it has to be him!” All the while the man kept insisting, “I’m the man who was blind!”

Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he is like him." He kept saying, "I am the man."