The Bible says that John the Baptist ate ‘locusts and wild honey’; but I’ve seen one interpretation indicating that the locusts were the pod of the carob tree, which is actually a legume...
“The Bible says that John the Baptist ate ‘locusts and wild honey’; but I’ve seen one interpretation indicating that the locusts were the pod of the carob tree, which is actually a legume...”
“Locusts” meet the requirements of clean food according to the diet and sanitation laws (Leviticus 11), both the insect and the legume.
Matthew and Mark a equally ambiguous concerning the nourishment.