'Wilderness' in the Bible

He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord—just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

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

Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And He stayed there with the disciples.