13 Bible Verses about Temporary Stay In The Wilderness

Then Jesus was led into the desert by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil.

and for forty days he was led by the Spirit in the desert, while the devil tempted him. During these days he ate nothing, and when they were over he felt hungry.

Then the Spirit drove him immediately into the desert,

But he went off and proceeded to proclaim it aloud and spread news of the affair both far and wide. The result was that Jesus could no longer enter any town openly; he stayed outside in lonely places, and people came to him from every quarter.

As the disciples of John went away, Jesus proceeded to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind?

When John's messengers had gone, he proceeded to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind?

The disciples said to him, "Where are we to get loaves enough in a desert to satisfy such a crowd?"

If they tell you, 'Here he is in the desert,' do not go out; 'here he is in the chamber,' do not believe it.

while he kept in lonely places and prayed.

Now as the day began to decline the twelve came up to him and said, "Send the crowd off to lodge in the villages and farms around and get provisions there, for here we are in a desert place."

Accordingly Jesus no longer appeared in public among the Jews, but withdrew to the country adjoining the desert, to a town called Ephraim; there he stayed with the disciples.

"Then you are not the Egyptian who in days gone by raised the four thousand assassins and led them out into the desert?"

(men of whom the world was not worthy), wanderers in the desert and among the hills, in caves and gullies.