'Wilderness' in the Bible
About this time, John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the Judean wilderness,
He was the one the prophet Isaiah was referring to when he said, "He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"
After this, Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil.
As they were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John. "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
The disciples asked him, "Where in the wilderness are we to get enough bread to feed such a crowd?"
So if they say to you, "Look! He's in the wilderness,' don't go out looking for him. And if they say, "Look! He's in the storeroom,' don't believe it,
He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"
John was baptizing in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism about repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
He was in the wilderness for 40 days being tempted by Satan. He was among wild animals, and angels were ministering to him.
His disciples answered him, "Where could anyone get enough bread to feed these people out here in the wilderness?"
Now the child continued to grow and to become spiritually strong. He lived in the wilderness until the day he appeared in Israel.
and Annas and Caiaphas high priests, a message from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness.
as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!
Then Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to ask the crowds about John. "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
"Suppose one of you has 100 sheep and loses one of them. He leaves the 99 in the wilderness and looks for the one that is lost until he finds it, doesn't he?
He replied, "I am ""a voice crying out in the wilderness, "Prepare the Lord's highway,"' as the prophet Isaiah said."
Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"
As a result, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. Instead, he went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness. There he remained with his disciples.
It was he who led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for 40 years.
This Moses is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and to our ancestors. He received living truths to give to us,
So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the heavenly bodies. As it is written in the book of the Prophets: "O house of Israel, you didn't offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices those 40 years in the wilderness, did you?
"Our ancestors had the Tent of Testimony in the wilderness constructed, just as the one who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.
After he had put up with them for 40 years in the wilderness,
But God wasn't pleased with most of those people, and so they were struck down in the wilderness.
do not harden your hearts as they did when they provoked me during the time of testing in the wilderness.
And with whom was he angry for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned and whose bodies fell dead in the wilderness?
Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where a place had been prepared for her by God so that she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
However, the woman was given the two wings of a large eagle so that she could fly away from the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she could be taken care of for a time, times, and half a time.
Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was controlled by blasphemy. It had seven heads and ten horns.