14 Grk “said these things.”
15 Or “clay” (moistened earth of a clay-like consistency). The textual variant preserved in the text of Ephraem’s commentary on the Diatessaron (“he made eyes from his clay”) probably arose from the interpretation given by Irenaeus in Against Heresies: “that which the Artificer, the Word, had omitted to form in the womb, he then supplied in public.” This involves taking the clay as an allusion to Gen 2:7, which is very unlikely.
16 Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) was replaced by a third person pronoun and a new sentence started here in the translation.
17 Grk “on his.”

In other versions

Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud

After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.

After he said these things he spit on the ground, made some mud from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes.

Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes.

When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes.

When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,

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