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

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness of Judea proclaiming,

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.

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,

Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

“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?

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.

He was in the wilderness forty days, enduring temptations from Satan. He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.

John said, “I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

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.

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.’”

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.

“Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?