'Wilderness' in the Bible
In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness of Judea proclaiming,
For he is the one about whom Isaiah the prophet had spoken: "The voice of one shouting in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.'"
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
So then, if someone says to you, 'Look, he is in the wilderness,' do not go out, or 'Look, he is in the inner rooms,' do not believe him.
the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.'"
In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
He was in the wilderness forty days, enduring temptations from Satan. He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.
And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.
during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.
Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,
Yet Jesus himself frequently withdrew to the wilderness and prayed.
When John's messengers had gone, 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?
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.
This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
This is the man who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to you.
But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?
Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen.
For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
Then you're not that Egyptian who started a rebellion and led the four thousand men of the 'Assassins' into the wilderness some time ago?"
But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.
I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,
"Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.
And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
and she fled into the wilderness where a place had been prepared for her by God, so she could be taken care of for 1,260 days.
But the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness, to the place God prepared for her, where she is taken care of -- away from the presence of the serpent -- for a time, times, and half a time.
So he carried me away in the Spirit to a wilderness, and there I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.