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;
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Gill's Exposition
And John was clothed with camel's hair,.... This is a description of John by his clothes; See Gill on Mat 3:4, to which may be added, that it was usual for penitents, and men of austere lives, and of…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
was clothed The Evangelist draws our attention to three points in reference to the Baptist:
(a) His appearance. He recalled the asceticism of the Essene. His raiment was of the coarsest texture, such…
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