'Wilderness' in the Bible

He said, "I [am] 'the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, "Make straight the way of the Lord," ' just as Isaiah the prophet said."

And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, thus it is necessary [that] the Son of Man 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.

So Jesus was no longer walking openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.