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.
Matthew 11:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 But what went ye out for to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that wear soft raiment are in kings' houses. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition What did you go out to see then? A man clothed in soft garments? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in the houses of kings. American Standard Version (1901) But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that wear soft raiment are in kings’ houses. Common English Bible What did you go out to see? A man dressed up in refined clothes? Look, those who wear refined clothes are in royal palaces. Catholic Public Domain Version So what did you go out to see? A man in soft garments? Behold, those who are clothed in soft garments are in the houses of kings. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But what went you out to see? a man clothed in soft garments? Behold they that are clothed in soft garments, are in the houses of kings. |
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.
at that time the LORD spake by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he prophesieth; neither shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:
And as these went their way, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken with the wind?
But wherefore went ye out? to see a prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.
Now John himself had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;
in labour and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he hath remaining:
And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.