Matthew 3:4
John wore a garment of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:22
Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.

1 Samuel 14:26
And when they entered the forest and saw the flowing honey, not one of them put his hand to his mouth, because they feared the oath.

2 Kings 1:8
"He was a hairy man," they answered, "with a leather belt around his waist." "It was Elijah the Tishbite," said the king.

Isaiah 20:2
the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, "Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet." And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot.

Zechariah 13:4
And on that day every prophet who prophesies will be ashamed of his vision, and he will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.

Matthew 11:8
Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear fine clothing are found in kings' palaces.

Matthew 11:18
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon!'

Mark 1:6
John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.


Treasury of Scripture
And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

his raiment.



Matthew 11:8
But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.



2 Kings 1:8
And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.



Zechariah 13:4
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:

and his.



Matthew 11:18
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.



Leviticus 11:22
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

wild.



Deuteronomy 32:13
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;



1 Samuel 14:25-27
And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground…


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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