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.

Being forty days tempted by the devil. And in those days he ate nothing, and when they were ended he hungered.

And immediately the Spirit leadeth him out into the wilderness. And he was there in the wilderness forty days,

But he going out published it much and blazed abroad the matter, so that he could no more openly enter into the city; but he was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.

Jesus said to the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

And when the messengers of John were departed, he said to the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see?

And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so much bread in a wilderness, as to satisfy so great a multitude?

Therefore if they say to you, Behold, he is in the desert, go not forth: Behold he is in the secret chambers, believe it not.

But he withdrew into the deserts and prayed.

And the day began to decline. And the twelve coming to him said, send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge and find victuals: for we are here in a desert place.

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

Who said, Canst thou speak Greek? Art not thou that Egyptian, who before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out four thousand murtherers into the wilderness?

(Of whom the world was not worthy) they wandered in deserts, and mountains, and dens, and caves of the earth.