“For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon'.”

John lived a life of fasting and prayer. He drank no wine or strong drink because of his dedication to God (Luke 1:15). He dressed in goatskins or camel's hair, and ate locusts and wild honey (Matthew 3:4). Thus once people began to become disillusioned at his ‘excessive' demands it was easy to find something to criticise in him. Having rejected his message they dismissed him as a demon of the desert.

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