Matthew 3:4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Now John wore clothing of camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Cross References

2 Kings 1:8

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

Isaiah 20:2

at that time the Lord had spoken to Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your loins and take your sandals off your feet,” and he had done so, walking naked and barefoot.

Leviticus 11:22

Of them you may eat: the locust according to its kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.

Zechariah 13:4

On that day the prophets will be ashamed, every one, of their visions when they prophesy; they will not put on a hairy mantle in order to deceive,

Malachi 4:5

Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible 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

What then did you go out to see? Someone dressed in soft robes? Look, those who wear soft robes are in royal palaces.

Mark 1:6

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

Luke 1:17

With the spirit and power of Elijah he will go before him, to turn the hearts of 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 set him atop the heights of the land, and fed him with produce of the field; he nursed him with honey from the crags, with oil from flinty rock;

Revelation 11:3

And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”