13 Bible Verses about Temporary Stay In The Wilderness

Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the Devil.

forty days, tempted by the Devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry.

And immediately the Spirit driveth him forth into the wilderness.

But he went away, and began to publish it constantly, and to spread the matter abroad, so that Jesus could no more enter a city openly, but was without in desert places; and they came to him from every quarter.

And, as these were going, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? the reeds shaken by the wind?

And when the messengers of John had departed, he began to say to the multitudes concerning John, What have ye gone out into the wilderness to see? the reeds shaken by the wind?

And the disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in a wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

If therefore they say to you, Lo! he is in the wilderness; go not forth; lo! he is in the private chambers; believe them not.

But he was wont to withdraw to desert places, and pray.

And when the day began to decline, the twelve came and said to him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages around, and the open country, and lodge, and get food; for we are here in a desert place.

Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but departed thence to the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there abode with the disciples.

Art thou not then the Egyptian, who before these days made an insurrection, and led out into the wilderness those four thousand men of the assassins?

of whom the world was not worthy; they wandered in deserts and mountains, and caves and the clefts of the earth.