Mark 1:6
Mark chapter 1 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.
Context
v.5And there went out unto him all the country of Judæa, and all they of Jerusalem; and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
v.6This passage
v.7And he preached, saying, There cometh after me he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- 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 prophesieth; neither shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:
- 2 Kings 1:8
And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
- Matthew 3:4
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.