'Wilderness' in the Bible

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

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.

Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.