13 Bible Verses about Temporary Stay In The Wilderness

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

All that time he ate nothing; and, when it was over, he became hungry.

Immediately afterwards the Spirit drove Jesus out into the Wilderness;

The man, however, went away, and began to speak about it publicly, and to spread the story so widely, that Jesus could no longer go openly into a town, but stayed outside in lonely places; and people came to him from every direction.

While these men were going back, Jesus began to say to the crowds with reference to John:

When John's messengers had left, Jesus, speaking to the crowds, began to say with reference to John:

"Where can we," his disciples asked, "in a lonely place find enough bread for such a crowd as this?"

Therefore, if people say to you 'He is in the Wilderness!', do not go out there; or 'He is in an inner room!', do not believe it;

But Jesus used to withdraw to lonely places and pray.

The day was drawing to a close, when the twelve came up to him, and said: "Send the crowd away, so that they may make their way to the villages and farms round about, and find themselves lodgings and provisions, for we are in a lonely spot here."

In consequence of this, Jesus did not go about publicly among the Jews any more, but left that neighborhood, and went into the country bordering on the Wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.

"Are not you, then, the Egyptian who some time ago raised an insurrection and led the four thousand Bandits out into the Wilderness?"

men of whom the world was not worthy--roaming in lonely places, and on the mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.