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made mud with the saliva

Jesus used his fingers to mix the dirt and saliva. Alternate translation: "and used his fingers to mix the dirt and saliva to make mud" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit)

smeared the mud on his eyes

"smeared the mud on the man's eyes"