⁴ Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.^(A)

⁸ They answered him, “A hairy man with a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”^(A)

²² Of them you may eat: locusts of every kind, bald locusts of every kind, crickets of every kind, and grasshoppers of every kind.^(A)

⁶ Now John was clothed with camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.^(A)

⁸ What, then, did you go out to see? Someone^[a] dressed in soft robes? Look, those who wear soft robes are in royal palaces.

⁴ On that day the prophets will be ashamed, every one, of their visions when they prophesy; they will not put on a hairy mantle in order to deceive,^(A)

¹⁷ With the spirit and power of Elijah he will go before him, to turn the hearts of parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”^(A)

⁵ See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.^(A)

³ And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”^(A)

¹⁸ “For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’;