17 Bible Verses about Temporary Stay In The Wilderness

And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king himself also passed over the torrent Kidron, and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness.

And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die. And he said, It is enough. O Jehovah, take away my life. For I am no better than my fathers.

They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert by the way; they found no city to dwell in.

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

forty days, being tempted by the Devil. And in those days He ate nothing. And they being ended, He afterward was hungry.

And immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness.

But going out, he began to proclaim it very much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was outside in deserted places. And they came to Him from every quarter.

And as they departed, Jesus began to say to the crowds concerning John, What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

And when the messengers of John had departed, He began to speak to the people concerning John. What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

And His disciples said to Him, From where should we get so many loaves in the wilderness, so as to fill so great a crowd?

Therefore if they shall say to you, Behold, He is in the desert! Do not go out. Behold, He is in the secret rooms! Do not believe it.

But He was drawing back in the wilderness, and praying.

But the day began to wear away, and coming up the Twelve said to Him, Send the crowd away so that they may go into the villages and farms all around, and lodge, and get food. For we are here in a deserted place.

Therefore Jesus walked no more openly among the Jews; but He went away from there to a country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and continued there with His disciples.

Then are you not the Egyptian who before these days caused a riot, and led four thousand men of the assassins out into the wilderness?

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth.