'Wilderness' in the Bible

He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up;

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed thence into the country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there he tarried with the disciples.