Devine Scripture

Matthew 3:4

Matthew chapter 3 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Now John himself had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Now John himself had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Context

v.3For this is he that was spoken of through Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight.

v.4This passage

v.5Then went out unto him Jerusalem, and all Judæa, and all the region round about the Jordan;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 32:13

    He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the increase of the field; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock;

  • Mark 1:6

    And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.

  • Leviticus 11:22

    even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.

  • 1 Samuel 14:25

    And all the people came into the forest; and there was honey upon the ground.

  • Matthew 11:8

    But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that wear soft raiment are in kings’ houses.

  • Malachi 4:5

    Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come.