For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’
for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.
You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink. For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will silence in this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. “And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’
But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”
Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?”
The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’
The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?”
Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.
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