now John wore a coat made of camels hair, with a leathern girdle about his waist; and his food was locusts and wild hony.

neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

then pleating a crown of thorns, they set it on his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, in mockery, saying, hail king of the Jews.