4 John was in desert baptizing, and preaching the baptism of penance, into remission of sins.

5 And all the country of Judea went out to him, and all men of Jerusalem; and they were baptized of him in the flume [or the flood] of Jordan, acknowledging their sins.

6 And John was clothed with hairs of camels, and a girdle of skin was about his loins; and he ate honey-suckles, and wild honey, [or locusts, and honey of the wood],