Mark 1:6

Mark 1:6

4 ^aJohn came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance¹ for the remission of sins.

5 ^aThen all the land of Judea, and those from Jerusalem, went out to him and were all baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

6 Now John was ^aclothed with camel’s hair and with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

7 And he preached, saying, ^a“There comes One after me who is mightier than I, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.

8 ^aI indeed baptized you with water, but He will baptize you ^bwith the Holy Spirit.”

John Baptizes Jesus

9 ^aIt came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Clothed with camel's hair (endedumenov trixav kamhlou). Matthew (Matthew 3:4) has it a garment (enduma) of camel's hair. Mark has it in the accusative plural the object of the perfect passive participle retained according to a common Greek idiom. It was, of course, not camel's skin, but rough cloth woven of camel's hair. For the locusts and wild honey, see on Matthew 3:4. Dried locusts are considered palatable and the wild honey, or "mountain honey" as some versions give it (meli agrion), was bountiful in the clefts of the rocks. Some Bedouins make their living yet by gathering this wild honey out of the rocks.

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