'Wilderness' in the Bible

A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye his paths,' --

John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation -- to remission of sins,

And immediately doth the Spirit put him forth to the wilderness,

and he was there in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by the Adversary, and he was with the beasts, and the messengers were ministering to him.

And his disciples answered him, 'Whence shall any one be able these here to feed with bread in a wilderness?'