Who dressed in animal skins and ate locusts and honey?

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This question tests your ability to recognize a specific biblical figure described by an ascetic wilderness lifestyle. The exact portrait given—clothing made of camel’s hair with a leather belt, and a diet of locusts and wild honey—appears in the Gospel accounts of John the Baptist. He lived in the wilderness, dressed in that simple, rough attire, and his meals were locusts and honey as he preached a message of repentance and prepared the way for Jesus. Elijah is described as having a rough garment as well, but the exact combination of camel’s hair attire with locusts and honey is unique to John. Moses and Isaiah aren’t depicted with this particular wild, ascetic lifestyle. So the figure that fits both the dress and the diet is John the Baptist.