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Mark 1:6

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Camel;   John;   Leather;   Locust;   Scofield Reference Index - Inspiration;   Miracles;   Repentance;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Honey;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Elijah;   John the Baptist;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Camel;   Girdle;   Kings, the Books of;   Locust;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Camel's Hair;   Confession;   Honey;   Insects;   John;   Leather;   Locust;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Ordinances;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Camel;   Dress;   Food;   Honey;   Jesus Christ;   John the Baptist;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Animals;   Benedictus;   Camel, Camel's Hair;   Common Life;   Dress (2);   Food;   Honey;   John the Baptist;   Locust;   Locust ;   Sackcloth;   Wealth (2);   Winter ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Girdle;   Leather;   New Testament;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camel;   Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Locust;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Camel;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Camel's Hair;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - John, the Baptize;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Camel;   Camel's Hair;   Hair;   Honey;   Husks;   Locust;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Camel;   Christianity in Its Relation to Judaism;   Pharisees;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 22;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
John wore a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.
King James Version (1611)
And Iohn was clothed with camels haire, and with a girdle of a skin about his loines: and he did eat locusts and wilde honie,
King James Version
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;
English Standard Version
Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.
New American Standard Bible
John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and his diet was locusts and wild honey.
New Century Version
John wore clothes made from camel's hair, had a leather belt around his waist, and ate locusts and wild honey.
Amplified Bible
John wore clothing made of camel's hair and had a [wide] leather band around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and his diet was locusts and wild honey.
Legacy Standard Bible
And John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and was eating locusts and wild honey.
Berean Standard Bible
John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Contemporary English Version
John wore clothes made of camel's hair. He had a leather strap around his waist and ate grasshoppers and wild honey.
Complete Jewish Bible
Yochanan wore clothes of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist; he ate locusts and wild honey.
Darby Translation
And John was clothed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey.
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe Iohn was clothed wt camels heare, and with a girdle of a skinne about his loynes: and he did eate Locusts and wilde hony,
George Lamsa Translation
John wore a dress of camel''s hair, with a girdle of leather fastened around his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Good News Translation
John wore clothes made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Lexham English Bible
And John was dressed in camel's hair and a belt made of leather around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
Literal Translation
And John was clothed in camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loin, and eating locusts and wild honey.
American Standard Version
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.
Bible in Basic English
And John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.
Hebrew Names Version
Yochanan was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his loins. He ate locusts and wild honey.
International Standard Version
Now John was dressed in camel's hair withand
">[fn] a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.Leviticus 11:22; Matthew 3:4;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
But Juchanon himself was clothed with a garment of the hair of camels, and engirded with a belt of leather upon his loins; and his food was locusts and wilderness honey.
Murdock Translation
And this John was clad in raiment of camels' hair; and was girded with a cincture of skin about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iohn was clothed with Camelles heere, and with a girdle of a skynne about his loynes: and he did eate locustes and wylde hony.
English Revised Version
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.
World English Bible
John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his loins. He ate locusts and wild honey.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And John was clothed with camels hair, and with a leathern girdle about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey,
Weymouth's New Testament
As for John, his garment was of camel's hair, and he wore a loincloth of leather; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Joon was clothid with heeris of camels, and a girdil of skyn was about hise leendis; and he ete hony soukis, and wilde hony, and prechide,
Update Bible Version
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and [had] a leather girdle about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey.
Webster's Bible Translation
And John was clothed with camels hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he ate locusts and wild honey;
New English Translation
John wore a garment made of camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
New King James Version
Now John was clothed with camel's hair and with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
New Living Translation
His clothes were woven from coarse camel hair, and he wore a leather belt around his waist. For food he ate locusts and wild honey.
New Life Bible
John wore clothes made of hair from camels. He had a leather belt around him. His food was locusts and wild honey.
New Revised Standard
Now John was clothed with camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and John was clothed with camel's-hair and a leathern girdle about his loins, and was eating locusts and wild honey;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And John was clothed camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and he ate locusts and wild honey.
Revised Standard Version
Now John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leather girdle around his waist, and ate locusts and wild honey.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Iohn was clothed with cammylles heer and with a gerdyll of a skyn a bout hys loynes. And he dyd eate locustes and wylde hony
Young's Literal Translation
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and a girdle of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and honey of the field,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ihon was clothed with Camels heer, and with a lethron gerdell aboute his loynes, and ate locustes and wylde hony,
Mace New Testament (1729)
now John was clothed with camels hair, with a leathern girdle about his waist: and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Simplified Cowboy Version
John was a different sort of fellow. He wore a vest of camel hair with a stout leather belt holding his jeans up. He didn't waste no time with fancy vittles, but just ate locusts and wild honey.

Contextual Overview

1The good news of Jesus Christ—the Message!—begins here, following to the letter the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Watch closely: I'm sending my preacher ahead of you; He'll make the road smooth for you. Thunder in the desert! Prepare for God's arrival! Make the road smooth and straight! 4John the Baptizer appeared in the wild, preaching a baptism of life-change that leads to forgiveness of sins. People thronged to him from Judea and Jerusalem and, as they confessed their sins, were baptized by him in the Jordan River into a changed life. John wore a camel-hair habit, tied at the waist with a leather belt. He ate locusts and wild field honey. 7As he preached he said, "The real action comes next: The star in this drama, to whom I'm a mere stagehand, will change your life. I'm baptizing you here in the river, turning your old life in for a kingdom life. His baptism—a holy baptism by the Holy Spirit—will change you from the inside out."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

clothed: 2 Kings 1:8, Zechariah 13:4, Matthew 3:4

eat: Leviticus 11:22

Reciprocal: Luke 7:33 - came

Cross-References

Genesis 1:6
God spoke: "Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!" God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was: he named sky the Heavens; It was evening, it was morning— Day Two.
Genesis 1:11
God spoke: "Earth, green up! Grow all varieties of seed-bearing plants, Every sort of fruit-bearing tree." And there it was. Earth produced green seed-bearing plants, all varieties, And fruit-bearing trees of all sorts. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning— Day Three.
Genesis 1:14
God spoke: "Lights! Come out! Shine in Heaven's sky! Separate Day from Night. Mark seasons and days and years, Lights in Heaven's sky to give light to Earth." And there it was.
Genesis 1:20
God spoke: "Swarm, Ocean, with fish and all sea life! Birds, fly through the sky over Earth!" God created the huge whales, all the swarm of life in the waters, And every kind and species of flying birds. God saw that it was good. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Ocean! Birds, reproduce on Earth!" It was evening, it was morning— Day Five.
Genesis 1:26
God spoke: "Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature So they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, And, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth." God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God's nature. He created them male and female. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth."
Psalms 19:1
A David Psalm God's glory is on tour in the skies, God-craft on exhibit across the horizon. Madame Day holds classes every morning, Professor Night lectures each evening.
Psalms 33:6
The skies were made by God 's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out. He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.
Psalms 150:1
Hallelujah! Praise God in his holy house of worship, praise him under the open skies; Praise him for his acts of power, praise him for his magnificent greatness; Praise with a blast on the trumpet, praise by strumming soft strings; Praise him with castanets and dance, praise him with banjo and flute; Praise him with cymbals and a big bass drum, praise him with fiddles and mandolin. Let every living, breathing creature praise God ! Hallelujah!
Ecclesiastes 11:3
When the clouds are full of water, it rains. When the wind blows down a tree, it lies where it falls. Don't sit there watching the wind. Do your own work. Don't stare at the clouds. Get on with your life.
Jeremiah 10:10
But God is the real thing— the living God, the eternal King. When he's angry, Earth shakes. Yes, and the godless nations quake.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And John was clothed with camel's hair,.... This is a description of John by his clothes; :-, to which may be added, that it was usual for penitents, and men of austere lives, and of the first class for holiness and religion, to live in deserts, to fare hard, and wear coarse apparel. Mention is made of one man, who is called, נתן דצוציתא f, because he had on a garment of goat's hair, which cut his flesh, that so it might atone for him, for he was a penitent:

and with a girdle or skin about his loins; a leathern one, as in Matthew 3:4, not a golden one, such as the high priest wore, though the g Jews call John an high priest: he was indeed of the priestly race: his father was a priest, but he did not wear a priestly girdle, nor any of the priest's garments;

and he ate locusts and wild honey. The Ethiopic version renders it, "honey of earth bees": in Ethiopia was a sort of bees, little bigger than flies, and without a sting, which had their hives in the earth, where they produced honey of a white colour, very pleasant and wholesome; and this is thought, by the Ethiopians, to be the honey which John ate h; but then there must have been the same in Judea, which does not appear. Moreover, in the land of Judea, there was תמרים

דבש של, "the honey of palm trees"; and it is said i, that it is the best honey; and therefore the Scripture calls, honey of the palm trees, honey; and the palm trees which grow in the plains and valleys, abound most with it; wherefore there was much of this about Jericho, the city of palm trees: there was also דבש של תאינים, "honey of figs"; which in some places was in great plenty:

"R. Jacob ben Dosthai says k, it is three miles from Lud to Ono (see Ezra 2:33) one time I walked before break of day, and I went up to my ankles in honey of figs.''

Dr. Lightfoot thinks, this was the honey the evangelist speaks of, and John ate of. I have observed on Matthew 3:4 that with the Jews, the honey of bees was lawful to eat l though the bees themselves were not. So Jonathan ben Uzziel paraphrases, Leviticus 11:20,

"Let the species of bees be an abomination to you, but the honey of bees may be eaten;''

they being reckoned among reptiles that fly: and it may be further observed, that according to them, the honey of wasps and hornets was lawful to be eaten, as well as the honey of bees m and this may be truly called, as here, wild honey; for which they give these reasons n, because it is not of the substance of their bodies, but they gather it from herbs; and because in the same manner as bees, they take it into their bodies, but do not produce it from them; though some of the doctors dissent, and think it not lawful o.

f T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 56. 2. Vid. Buxtorf. not. in Sepher Cosri, p. 156, 157. g Gauz. Tzemach David, par. 1. fol. 25. 2. h Ludolph. Lex. Ethiop. p. 447. i Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Biccurim, c. 1. sect. 10. k T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 111. 2. l Vid. Piske Tosephot Becorot, art. 13. m Misn. Macshirin, c. 6. sect. 4. T. Bab. Becorot, fol. 7. 2. n Maimon. Hilch. Maacalot Asurot, c. 3. sect. 3. Ib. & Bartenora in Misn. Macshirin, ibid. o In Piske Tosephot Becorot, art. 13. Maggid Misna in Maimon. Hilch. Maacolot ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 3:3, Matthew 3:5-6, Matthew 3:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Mark 1:6. John was clothed, &c.] Matthew 3:4; Matthew 3:4.


 
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