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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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