Mark 1:6

And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;

And {G1161} John {G2491} was {G2258} clothed {G1746} with camel's {G2574} hair {G2359}, and {G2532} with a girdle {G2223} of a skin {G1193} about {G4012} his {G846} loins {G3751}; and {G2532} he did eat {G2068} locusts {G200} and {G2532} wild {G66} honey {G3192};

Yochanan wore clothes of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist; he ate locusts and wild honey.

John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.

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Cross-References

  • 2 Kings 1:8 (16 votes)

    And they answered him, [He was] an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It [is] Elijah the Tishbite.

  • Leviticus 11:22 (8 votes)

    [Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

  • Zechariah 13:4 (6 votes)

    And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:

  • Matthew 3:4 (6 votes)

    And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.