For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, he has a demon. John's ascetic ministry — the wilderness diet, the camel-hair clothing, the fasting — was met with the charge of demon possession. The asceticism that should have signaled the prophetic seriousness of the moment was dismissed as evidence of spiritual pathology. The generation that had asked for the austere prophet rejected the austere prophet when he arrived.

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