Matthew 3:4

Modern English Version

This same John had clothing made of camel’s hair, a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Cross References

2 Kings 1:8

They answered him, “He was a hairy man with a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It was Elijah the Tishbite.”

Isaiah 20:2

at the same time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz saying, “Go and loosen the sackcloth from your waist and take off your shoes from your feet.” And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

Leviticus 11:22

Even of these you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.

Zechariah 13:4

On that day each prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a robe of coarse hair in order to deceive.

Malachi 4:5

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreaded day of the Lord.

Matthew 11:18

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

Matthew 11:8

What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.

Mark 1:6

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

Luke 1:17

And he will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 32:13

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate of the produce of the fields; He made him suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the flinty rock,

Revelation 11:3

And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”