17 Bible Verses about Temporary Stay In The Wilderness

But the Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, on the road to [Egypt by way of] Shur.

While all the country was weeping with a loud voice, all the people crossed over. The king also crossed the Brook Kidron, and all the people went on toward the way of the wilderness [that lies between Jerusalem and the Jordan River].

But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

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

Then Jesus was led by the [Holy] 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 ended, He was hungry.

Immediately the [Holy] Spirit forced Him out into the wilderness.

But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the news [of his healing], to such an extent that Jesus could no longer openly enter a city [where He was known], but stayed out in the unpopulated places; yet people were still 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 in the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind [which is commonplace]?

When John’s messengers left, Jesus began speaking to the crowds about John: “What did you go out to the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

The disciples said to Him, “Where are we to get enough bread in this isolated place to feed so large a crowd?”

So if they say to you, ‘Look! He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out there, or, ‘Look! He is in the inner rooms [of a house],’ do not believe it.

But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray [in seclusion].

Now the day was ending, and the twelve [disciples] came and said to Him, “Send the crowd away, so that they may go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging, and get provisions; because here we are in an isolated place.”

For that reason Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but left there and went to the district that borders on the uninhabited wilderness, to a town called Ephraim; and He stayed there with the disciples.

Then you are not [as I assumed] the Egyptian who some time ago stirred up a rebellion and led those 4,000 men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?”

(people of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and [living in] caves and holes in the ground.