Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.
Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he. How graphically is the identity of the man thus ascertained; and his own testimony, coming only to settle the point after it had been raised and occasioned some discussion, acquires thus additional importance. It is a good remark of Webster and Wilkinson, that the diversity of opinion is readily accounted for by the great difference his appearance, which would be made by the removal of the most deforming of blemishes, and the bestowal of the most distinguishing of features. But another remark, of more consequence, might have been made here-that the difficulty which his neighbours had in believing that this was the same man whom they had known as the blind beggar, and the need of his own testimony to put the fact beyond all question, is the best evidence of the perfection of the cure. Well, this settled, the next questions naturally are, How was it done? and Who did it?