They answered Ahaziah, “This man was wearing a hairy coat with a leather belt around his waist.” Then Ahaziah said, “That was Elijah the Tishbite.”
Mark 1:6 - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version John wore clothes made from camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 And John was clothed with camel's hair and with a leather belt around his waist. And he ate locusts and wild honey. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And John was clothed with camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and he ate locusts and wild honey. |
They answered Ahaziah, “This man was wearing a hairy coat with a leather belt around his waist.” Then Ahaziah said, “That was Elijah the Tishbite.”
You may also eat all kinds of locusts, all kinds of winged locusts, all kinds of crickets, and all kinds of grasshoppers.
At that time the prophets will be ashamed of their visions and prophecies. They will not wear the rough cloth that shows a person is a prophet. They will not wear those clothes to trick people with the lies they call prophecies.
John’s clothes were made from camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. For food, he ate locusts and wild honey.
All the people from Judea, including everyone from Jerusalem, came out to John. They confessed the bad things they had done, and he baptized them in the Jordan River.
This is what John told the people: “There is someone coming later who is able to do more than I can. I am not good enough to be the slave who stoops down to untie his sandals.