John 9:8

9:8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously ¹  as a beggar began saying, ²  “Is this not the man ³  who used to sit and beg?”

John 19:39

19:39 Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus ⁴  at night, ⁵  accompanied Joseph, ⁶  carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes ⁷  weighing about seventy-five pounds. ⁸ 

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¹ tn Or “formerly.”

² tn An ingressive force (“began saying”) is present here because the change in status of the blind person provokes this new response from those who knew him.

³ tn Grk “the one.”

⁴ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ sn See John 3:1-21.

⁶ tn Grk “came”; the words “accompanied Joseph” are not in the Greek text but are supplied for clarity.

⁷ sn Aloes refers to an aromatic resin from a plant similar to a lily, used for embalming a corpse.

⁸ sn The Roman pound (λίτρα, litra) weighed twelve ounces or 325 grams. Thus 100 Roman pounds would be about 32.5 kilograms or 75 pounds.