12 Bible Verses about Temporary Stay In The Wilderness

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

He ate nothing during these days, and at the close of them he was hungry.

Then the Spirit drove him at once into the desert,

But he went out and began to tell every one and to publish it broadcast, so that Jesus could no longer enter any town openly; but he had to remain outside in lonely places, and people kept coming to him from every quarter.

As these men started to go away, Jesus began to speak to the throngs, about John.

When John's messengers were gone he began to speak to the crowds about John, saying, "What went out you out to the desert to behold? A reed shaken by the wind?

"In a lonely place like this," asked the disciple. "where can we get bread enough to satisfy such a crowd?"

"'See, He is in the desert,' do not go out there. "'See, He is in the inner room,' do not believe it.

But Jesus himself habitually withdrew into solitary places, and there used to pray.

But now the day began to decline, and the twelve came to him and said: "Send away the crowd so that they may go into the villages and surrounding the country to lodge and buy provisions; for here we are on a solitary place."

Jesus therefore no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near the desert to a town called Ephraim,

"Do you know Greek?" said the tribune; "Are you not, then, the Egyptian who in days gone by stirred up to sedition, and let into the wilderness the four thousand cutthroats?"