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OET (OET-LV) Therefore the neighbors and the ones observing him the earlier, that he_was a_beggar, were_saying:
Is this not the one sitting and begging?
OET (OET-RV) Then the neighbours of the man and others who had seen him earlier, knowing that he was a beggar asked, “Isn’t he the one who always sat and begged here?”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
ὅτι προσαίτης ἦν
that /a/_beggar ˱he˲_was
This clause is missing some of the words that a clause would need in many languages to be complete. If it would be helpful in your language, you could supply these words from the context. Alternate translation: [those who had seen that he was a beggar]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
οὐχ οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ καθήμενος καὶ προσαιτῶν?
not this is the_‹one› sitting and begging
The people here are using a rhetorical question to express their surprise at seeing the blind man who has been healed. If you would not use a rhetorical question for this purpose in your language, you could translate his words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: [This man is the one who used to sit and beg!]
9:1-41 At the Festival of Shelters (chs 7–8), Jesus claimed to be the light of the world (8:12). Now John tells about Jesus giving light, both physically and spiritually, to a blind man who lived in darkness (see 9:5). The story ends with a splendid reversal of roles: The blind man who was assumed to be in spiritual darkness could see God’s light, whereas the Pharisees, who could see physically and were thought to be enlightened, were shown to be spiritually blind.
OET (OET-LV) Therefore the neighbors and the ones observing him the earlier, that he_was a_beggar, were_saying:
Is this not the one sitting and begging?
OET (OET-RV) Then the neighbours of the man and others who had seen him earlier, knowing that he was a beggar asked, “Isn’t he the one who always sat and begged here?”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.