Mark 1:6

Mark 1:6 in other versions

• King James Version (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;
• New International Version (NIV)John wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

Context of Mark 1:6

4There came John baptising in the wilderness, and preaching [the] baptism of repentance for remission of sins. 5And there went out to him all the district of Judaea, and all they of Jerusalem, and were baptised by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. And John was clothed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey. 7And he preached, saying, There comes he that is mightier than I after me, the thong of whose sandals I am not fit to stoop down and unloose. 8I indeed have baptised you with water, but he shall baptise you with [the] Holy Spirit.

Mark 1:6 word by word

καὶ ἦν ὁ Ἰωάννης ἐνδεδυμένος τρίχας καμήλου καὶ ζώνην δερματίνην περὶ τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐσθίων ἀκρίδας καὶ μέλι ἄγριον.Read the interlinear

• JohnἸωάννηςIōannēs · JohnG2491
• wasεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• hairθρίξthrix trichos · hairG2359
• loinsὀσφῦςosphus · loinsG3751
• ateἐσθίωesthiō · to eatG2068
• locustsἀκρίςakris · locustG200
• wildἄγριοςagrios · wildG66
• honeyμέλιmeli · honeyG3192

Cross-references for Mark 1:6

• 2 Kings 1:8And they said to him, He was a man in a hairy [garment], and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
• Zechariah 13:4And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he prophesieth; neither shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive.
• Matthew 3:4And John himself had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and wild honey.
• Leviticus 11:22These shall ye eat of them: the arbeh after its kind, and the solam after its kind, and the hargol after its kind, and the hargab after its kind.

Commentaries on Mark 1:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6John was clothed, etc. - See the note on Matthew 3:4.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4-8Verses 4-8 See the notes at Matthew 3:3, Matthew 3:5-6, Matthew 3:11.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6camel’s hair, with a leather belt: Compare with Elijah (2 Kings 1:8). John ate what was available in the wilderness. Locusts (a type of insect) were allowed as food by God’s law (compare Leviticus 11:20–24).Read the comment

Topics related to Mark 1:6

• Camel
• John
• Leather
• Locust

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Commentaries on Mark 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings