This John had his clothes made of camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins; his food was locusts and wild honey.

you are not to take gold or silver or coppers in your girdle,

John was dressed in camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

and ordered them to take nothing but a stick for the journey, no bread, no wallet, no coppers in their girdle;

Truly, truly I tell you, you put on your own girdle and went wherever you wanted, when you were young; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands for someone to gird you, and you will be taken where you have no wish to go"

He came to us, took Paul's girdle and bound his own feet and hands, saying, "Here is the word of the holy Spirit: 'So shall the Jews bind the owner of this girdle at Jerusalem and hand him over to the Gentiles'."