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'Deserted Place' in the Bible

For your wastes and your deserted places, and your land of ruins, shall even now be too narrow to dwell there, and they who swallowed you up shall be far away.

Verse ConceptsWaste Places RestoredFar From Here

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in deserted places like dead men.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Blindness, Consequences OfGuidance, Need For God'sWallsTwilightPeople StumblingAfflicted To Death

Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus ChristSeafaringCrowds Around JesusActing AloneBoats

When evening had come, the disciples went to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and it's already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves."

Verse ConceptsEveningVillagesCrowds AvoidedIsolated PersonsChrist Driving Out PeopleBuying FoodThe Disciples ReactionsEvenings For Jesus And His Disciples

The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"

Verse ConceptsUnbelief, And Life Of FaithCrowds Around JesusSeeking FoodTemporary Stay In The WildernessWhere Are Things?Feeding The Poor

But he went out [and] began to proclaim [it] freely and to spread abroad the account, so that he was no longer able to enter publicly into a town. But he was staying outside in deserted places, and they were coming to him from all directions.

Verse ConceptsUnwise ZealGod's Deed RevealedTemporary Stay In The Wildernesslonliness

He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a little while”—for there were many [people who were continually] coming and going, and they could not even find time to eat.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeHow Disciples LearnRest, PhysicalRecreationRetirementSolitudeDealing With Many PeopleComing To RestPeople EatingDisadvantages Of CrowdsGod Giving RestRest

They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.

Verse ConceptsBoatslonliness

When it was quite late, his disciples came to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and it's already late.

Verse ConceptsLatenesslonliness

His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"

Verse ConceptsUnbelief, And Life Of FaithFeeding Groups

When it was day, He went out and made His way to a deserted place. But the crowds were searching for Him. They came to Him and tried to keep Him from leaving them.

Verse ConceptsDawnHabitsSeeking ChristSolitudeCrowds SeekingLeaving

For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For it had seized him many times, and he was bound with chains and shackles [and] was guarded, and breaking the bonds he would be driven by the demon into the deserted places.)

Verse ConceptsChainsDemons, Nature OfRestlessnessSatan, Character OfIron ChainsLiving In The WildernessJesus Casting Out DemonsBreaking Chains

The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them, and withdrew apart to a deserted place of a city called Bethsaida.

Verse ConceptsApostles, During Jesus Earthly MinistryRetirementTelling What People DidThe Apostles In Actionfeedback

Late in the day, the Twelve approached and said to Him, “Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find food and lodging, because we are in a deserted place here.”

Verse ConceptsChrist Driving Out PeopleSeeking FoodTwelve DisciplesStaying TemporarilyTemporary Stay In The Wildernesslonliness

"Which one of you who has a hundred sheep, and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in a deserted place and go looking for the lost one until he finds it?

Verse ConceptsSheep, FigurativeShepherds, As OccupationsWatchfulness, DivineThe Number NinetyOne HundredSeeking For Concrete ThingsAbandoning ThingsNinetieslosing a loved oneMissing SomeoneBeing Lost

Deserted Placenot in American Standard Version

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