6And 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;
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And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
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.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)We may observe here, I. What the New Testament is—the divine testament, to which we adhere above all that is human ; the new testament, which we advance above that which was old. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God , Mark 1:1. 1. It is gospel ; it is God’s word, and is faithful and true ; see Rev. 19:9 ; 21:5 ; 22:6 . It is a good word , and well worthy of all acceptation ; it brings u…
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