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John wore clothes made from camel’s hair and had a leather belt around his waist. His diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.

Jerusalem, all Judea, and the whole Jordan Valley went to him. As they confessed their sins, he baptized them in the Jordan River.

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Now John himself had [a](A)a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was (B)locusts and wild honey. At that time Jerusalem (C)was going out to him, and all Judea and all (D)the region around the Jordan; and they were being (E)baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.

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  1. Matthew 3:4 Lit his garment

John’s(A) clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist.(B) His food was locusts(C) and wild honey. People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. Confessing their sins, they were baptized(D) by him in the Jordan River.

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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.

Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,

And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

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