“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;”
John was clothed in camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey — every detail of John's description deliberately evokes Elijah. Second Kings 1:8 describes Elijah as a hairy man with a leather belt around his waist; the same description applies to John. Malachi 4:5 promised that Elijah would be sent before the great day of the Lord. Jesus will later explicitly confirm that John is the promised Elijah (Mark 9:13). The camel's hair and leather belt are not ascetic affectations but prophetic uniform — John presents himself as the returning Elijah whose appearance signals that the day of the Lord has arrived.
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