'In the Wilderness' in the Bible

when Annas and Caiaphas were high-priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness;

as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths strait:

What man is there of you, possessing an hundred sheep, though he lose but one of them, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?