Mark 1:6

First Nations Version

Gift of Goodwill (John) came wearing buffalo-skin garments, with a cowhide sash around his waist. The food he ate was grasshoppers and wild honey.

Cross References

Matthew 3:4

Gift of Goodwill (John) came wearing a buffalo robe, with a deer-hide sash around his waist. The food he ate was grasshoppers and wild honey.

Mark 1:5

From the surrounding territory of the Land of Promise (Judea) and from Village of Peace (Jerusalem), all the people came to him to participate in his purification ceremony performed in the river Flowing Down (Jordan). As they came, they were admitting to their bad hearts and broken ways.

Mark 1:7

“I am preparing the way for the one who is greater and more powerful than I,” he announced to all. “I am not even worthy to bend down and untie his moccasins.