'In the Wilderness' in the Bible

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God became in John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, which says, The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of Lord. Make his paths straight.

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go for that which was lost until he finds it?