Matthew 3:4

New International Version

John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

Cross References

2 Kings 1:8

They replied, “He had a garment of hair and had a leather belt around his waist.” The king said, “That was Elijah the Tishbite.”

Isaiah 20:2

at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.

Leviticus 11:22

Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper.

Zechariah 13:4

“On that day every prophet will be ashamed of their prophetic vision. They will not put on a prophet’s garment of hair in order to deceive.

Malachi 4:5

“See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes.

Matthew 11:18

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

Matthew 11:8

If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear fine clothes are in kings’ palaces.

Mark 1:6

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

Luke 1:17

And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 32:13

He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag,

Revelation 11:3

And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”