Mark 1:6 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁶ John wore clothing made of camel’s hair and he had a leather belt around his waist. He ate grasshoppers and wild honey.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And John wore clothing woven of camel's hair and had a leather girdle around his loins and ate locusts and wild honey.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.

Common English Bible

⁶ John wore clothes made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And John was clothed with camel's hair and with a leather belt around his waist. And he ate locusts and wild honey.

Mark 1:6 Cross References

Matthew 3:4

Now John dressed in clothing made of camel’s hair and he wore a leather belt around his waist; he ate grasshoppers and wild honey [i.e., for his regular diet].

Mark 1:5

And people from throughout all the regions of Judea and all of Jerusalem went out to John [in the desert]. And he immersed them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

Mark 1:7

In his preaching John said, “One who is more powerful than I am will follow my ministry. I am not [even] worthy to stoop down and loosen the straps of His sandals [i.e., to serve as His slave].