17 Bible Verses about Temporary Stay In The Wilderness

The Lord's angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert -- the spring that is along the road to Shur.

All the land was weeping loudly as all these people were leaving. As the king was crossing over the Kidron Valley, all the people were leaving on the road that leads to the desert.

while he went a day's journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: "I've had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I'm no better than my ancestors."

They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live.

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.

The Spirit immediately drove him into the wilderness.

But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still they kept coming to him from everywhere.

While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

The disciples said to him, "Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?"

So then, if someone says to you, 'Look, he is in the wilderness,' do not go out, or 'Look, he is in the inner rooms,' do not believe him.

Yet Jesus himself frequently withdrew to the wilderness and prayed.

Now the day began to draw to a close, so the twelve came and said to Jesus, "Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and food, because we are in an isolated place."

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

Then you're not that Egyptian who started a rebellion and led the four thousand men of the 'Assassins' into the wilderness some time ago?"

(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.