'Wilderness' in the Bible

And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,

for this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, 'A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths.'

Then Jesus was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil,

And as they are going, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, 'What went ye out to the wilderness to view? -- a reed shaken by the wind?

And his disciples say to him, 'Whence to us, in a wilderness, so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?'

'If therefore they may say to you, Lo, in the wilderness he is, ye may not go forth; lo, in the inner chambers, ye may not believe;