13 Bible Verses about Temporary Stay In The Wilderness

Then was Jesus led by the spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil:

and He did eat nothing in all those days: and when they were ended, at last He was hungry.

And immediately the Spirit taketh Him out into the wilderness:

But when he was gone he began to publish it much, and to spread abroad the report: so that Jesus could no more go openly into the city, but kept out in country places: and they came to Him from all parts.

And as they departed, Jesus took occasion to say to the people concerning John, What went ye out into the desert to see? a reed shaken by the wind?

When the messengers of John were departed, He began to speak unto the people concerning John, what went ye out into the wilderness to see?

And his disciples replied, Whence can we have so much bread in this desert place as to satisfy so great a multitude?

Behold, he is in the desert, go not out: behold, he is the secret chambers, believe them not:

But He frequently retired into solitary places, and prayed.

And when the day began to decline, the twelve came and said to Him, Dismiss the people, that they may go into the villages and country-places round about, and bait, and get food: for here we are in a desert place.

Wherefore Jesus appeared no longer publicly among the Jews; but went away from thence into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.

Art not thou that Egyptian, who before this madest a sedition, and didst lead out into the wilderness four thousand murtherers?

distressed, (of whom the world was not worthy) wandering in deserts, and mountains, and dens, and caves of the earth.