Matthew 3:4
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.
KJV
αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Ἰωάννης εἶχεν τὸ ἔνδυμα αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τριχῶν καμήλου καὶ ζώνην δερματίνην περὶ τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ, ἡ δὲ τροφὴ ἦν αὐτοῦ ἀκρίδες καὶ μέλι ἄγριον.
Greek NT
Ipse autem Joannes habebat vestimentum de pilis camelorum, et zonam pelliceam circa lumbos suos : esca autem ejus erat locustæ, et mel silvestre.
Vulgate
Now John himself had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
ASV
And the same John had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δερμάτινος
dermatinos
adjective · 2×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
ζώνη
zone
noun · 8×
θρίξ
thrix
noun · 15×
κάμηλος
kamelos
noun · 6×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μέλι
meli
noun · 4×
περί
peri
preposition · 335×
τροφή
trophe
noun · 16×
ἀκρίς
akris
noun · 4×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἄγριος
agrios
adjective · 3×
ἔνδυμα
enduma
noun · 8×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
Ἰωάννης
ioannes
noun · 134×
ὀσφῦς
osphus
noun · 8×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἦν αὐτοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἦν αὐτοῦ | RP: αὐτοῦ ἦν
- ἦν αὐτοῦ — SBLGNT
- ἦν αὐτοῦ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- αὐτοῦ ἦν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. Now that on this account Christ came to His baptism, is from this evident. But wherefore was this baptism devised for Him? For that not of himself did the son of Zacharias proceed to this, but of God who moved him — this Luke also declares, when he says, The word of the Lord came unto him, Luke 3:2 that is, His commandment. And he himself too says, He that sent me to baptize…
Having manifested what he was and what he is, he shows the great fruit of his confession; and being about to examine by what method God and the happy life may be found, he enlarges on the nature and power of memory. Then he examines his own acts, thoughts and affections, viewed under the threefold division of temptation; and commemorates the Lord, the one mediator of God and me…
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 1:8 — 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.
- 2Kgs 1:8 — 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.
- Isa 7:15 — Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
- Isa 20:2 — At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
- Lev 11:22 — 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.
- Lev 11:22 — 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.
- Luke 1:17 — And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the L
- Luke 1:17 — And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the L
- Mal 4:5 — Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
- Mark 1:6 — 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;
- Mark 1:6 — 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;
- Matt 11:8 — But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.
- Matt 11:8 — But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.
- Matt 11:18 — For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.
- Zech 13:4 — 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:
- Zech 13:4 — 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: