13 Bible Verses about Temporary Stay In The Wilderness

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

while He was being tempted by the devil. During that time He ate nothing, and so at the end of it He felt hungry.

Then the Spirit at once drove Him out into the desert.

But he went out and began to publish it so much and to spread the story so far, that Jesus could not any more go into any town openly, but had to stay out in thinly settled places. But the people kept coming to Him from every quarter.

But as they were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the desert to gaze at? A reed that is tossed to and fro by the wind?

But when John's messengers had gone, He began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the desert to gaze at? A reed that is tossed to and fro by the wind?

The disciples said to Him, "Where in this destitute place can we get bread enough to satisfy such a crowd?"

So if they say to you, 'Here He is in the desert,' do not go out to see. Or 'Here He is in some secret place,' do not believe it.

But Jesus Himself continued His habit of retiring to lonely spots and praying.

As the day began to decline, the Twelve came up and said to Him, "Send the crowd off to the villages and farms around, to get lodging and to find food there, for we are in a destitute place here."

It was for this reason that Jesus no more appeared in public among the Jews, but He left that part of the country and went to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with His disciples.

Are you not the Egyptian who sometime ago raised a mob of four thousand cut-throats and led them out into the desert?"

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