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Yes, Matthew tells us:

Mat 3:4 John's clothes were made of camel's hair; he wore a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

The Jews were permitted to eat locust, crickets and grasshoppers according to God's laws. (Lev. 11:22) This was, and still is, a common practice among desert dwellers. Some modern scholars, however, disagree that he ate bugs and argue that the reference to locust was meant as being the fruit of the locust tree. Linguistically, however, this argument doesn't hold, primarily due to the fact that it has been translated from the Greek. The Greek word for locust is "akrida." The word akrida, unlike its English counterpart, has no other meaning than locust, crickets and grasshoppers. Once again scripture has been misinterpreted by some due to the lack of knowledge of the original language.

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he ate grasshoppers because and The Bible it said it was his meat

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Please open your mind and think why would The Most High God give John the Baptist and insect when there are so many species of locust fruit. Do your research and stop listening to the goyim way of preaching the word telling you anything and, you sallow it up. The Most High sent John with the spirit of Elijah his beloved prophet just don't make any sense to give him bugs to eat.

This bean pod like thing turns out a native of the Caribbean and South America, known as West Indian locust fruit or "stinking toe" (Hymenaea courbaril). It is supposed to be very smelly but I found it anything but. It tastes somewhat like freeze-dried vanilla icecream with strong grassy overtones. The pod is so hard I had to put it under a foot of my bed and drop it from a 20-cm height.

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