Mark 1:6
4 John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
5 People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
7 And he began to proclaim: “After me will come One more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.
8 I baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
- KJV
- 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;
- WEB
- John was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.
- ASV
- And John was clothed with camel`s hair, and [had] a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.
- DARBY
- And John was clothed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey.
- BLB
- And John was clothed in camel’s hair, and a belt of leather [was] around his waist, and he is eating locusts and wild honey.
- ÅB
- Og Johannes hadde kledning av kamelhår, og lærbelte om sin lend, og hans mat var gresshopper og vill honning.
- OTB
- Johannes var kledd i kamelhår og hadde et lærbelte om livet, og han spiste gresshopper og vill honning.
- B1930
- Og Johannes hadde klædning av kamelhår, og lærbelte om sin lend, og hans mat var gresshopper og vill honning.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Kings 1:8
“He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” “It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.
Read in contextLeviticus 11:22
Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
Read in contextZechariah 13:4
And on that day every prophet who prophesies will be ashamed of his vision, and he will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.
Read in contextMatthew 3:4
John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
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