Matthew 11:18

11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’

Leviticus 11:22

11:22 These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.

sn John the Baptist was too separatist and ascetic for some, and so he was accused of not being directed by God, but by a demon.

tn For entomological remarks on the following list of insects see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:665-66; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 160-61.