17 Bible Verses about Temporary Stay In The Wilderness

Now the angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

While all the country was weeping with a loud voice, all the people passed over. The king also passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness.

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region;
They did not find a way to an inhabited city.

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

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He became hungry.

Immediately the Spirit *impelled Him to go out into the wilderness.

But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the news around, to such an extent that Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city, but stayed out in unpopulated areas; and they were coming to Him from everywhere.

As these men were going away, 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?

When the messengers of John had left, He 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 would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?”

So if they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or, ‘Behold, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe them.

But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray.

Now the day was ending, and the twelve came and said to Him, “Send the crowd away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and get something to eat; for here we are in a desolate place.”

Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.

Then you are not the Egyptian who some time ago stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?”

(men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.