³ he is to abstain from wine and beer.^(A) He must not drink vinegar made from wine or from beer. He must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.

³ The angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Although you are unable to conceive and have no children, you will conceive and give birth to a son. ⁴ Now please be careful not to drink wine or beer,^(A) or to eat anything unclean;^{(B) 5} for indeed, you will conceive and give birth to a son. You must never cut his hair,^[a] because the boy will be a Nazirite^(C) to God from birth, and he will begin to save Israel from the power of the Philistines.”

¹⁸ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’^(A)

³³ For John the Baptist did not come eating bread or drinking wine,^(A) and you say, ‘He has a demon!’