Mark 1:6 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 1:6

John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

BSB

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ASV

And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.

KJV

And 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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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

LETTER 125, TO RUSTICUS 7 (420)

John the Baptist had a religious mother and his father was a priest. Yet neither his mother's affection nor his father's affluence could induce him to live in his parents' house at the risk of the world's temptations. So he lived in the desert. Seeking Christ with his eyes, he refused to look at anything else. His rough garb, his girdle made of skins, his diet of locusts and wild honey were all alike designed to encourage virtue and continence.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

The Gospel of Mark, which we now begin, is in some respects unlike the other three Gospels. It tells us nothing about the birth and early life of our Lord Jesus Christ. It contains comparatively few of His sayings and discourses. Of all the four inspired histories of our Lord's earthly ministry, this is by far the shortest. But we must not allow these peculiarities to make us undervalue Mark's Gospel. It is a Gospel singularly full of precious facts about the Lord Jesus, narrated in a simple, terse, pithy, and condensed style.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἦν	ēn	was	G1510 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰωάννης	Iōannēs	John	G2491 →
ἐνδεδυμένος	endedumenos	having clothed himself in	G1746 →
τρίχας	trichas	hair	G2359 →
καμήλου	kamēlou	of a camel	G2574 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ζώνην	zōnēn	a belt	G2223 →
δερματίνην	dermatinēn	of leather	G1193 →
περὶ	peri	around	G4012 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
ὀσφὺν	osphun	waist	G3751 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of him	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐσθίων	esthiōn	he is eating	G2068 →
ἀκρίδας	akridas	locusts	G200 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
μέλι	meli	honey	G3192 →
ἄγριον.	agrion	wild.	G66 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 3:4
John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
leads to
- 2 Kings 1:8
  “He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” “It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 11:8
  Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear fine clothing are found in kings’ palaces.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Leviticus 11:22
  Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
Through
2 Kings 1:8
“He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” “It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.
leads to
- Matthew 3:4
  John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Zechariah 13:4
  And on that day every prophet who prophesies will be ashamed of his vision, and he will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Zechariah 13:4
And on that day every prophet who prophesies will be ashamed of his vision, and he will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.
leads to
- Revelation 11:3
  And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 20:2
  the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Micah 3:6–7
  Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Mark

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Mark