'Wilderness' in the Bible

John said, "I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way for the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet 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.'"

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

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.