The Spirit immediately drove him into the wilderness.

So they went away by themselves in a boat to some remote place.

Yet Jesus himself<n id="1" /> frequently withdrew<n id="2" /> to the wilderness<n id="3" /> and prayed.p>

Your ancestors<n id="1" /> ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

For<n id="1" /> a period of about forty years he put up with<n id="2" /> them in the wilderness.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness<n id="1" /> of Judea proclaiming,

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness<n id="1" /> to be tempted by the devil.

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>the voice of one shouting in the wilderness,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>Prepare the way for the Lord,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>makei>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>his paths straight.i>b>&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">In the wilderness<n id="1" /> John the baptizer<n id="2" /> began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> got up early in the morning when it was still very dark, departed, and went out to a deserted place, and there he spent time in prayer.<n id="3" />

during the high priesthood<n id="1" /> of Annas and Caiaphas, the word<n id="2" /> of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River<n id="2" /> and was led by the Spirit<n id="3" /> in<n id="4" /> the wilderness,<n id="5" />

Just as<n id="1" /> Moses <i>lifted up the serpenti><n id="2" /> <i>in the wildernessi>,<n id="3" /> so must the Son of Man be lifted up,<n id="4" />

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

<p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<i><b>Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellionb>, <b>in the day of testing in the wildernessb>.i>p>

And against whom was God<n id="1" /> provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, <i>whose dead bodies fell in the wildernessi>?<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: &#8220;What did you go out into the wilderness<n id="1" /> to see? A reed shaken by the wind?<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now when Jesus heard this he went away from there privately in a boat to an isolated place. But when the crowd heard about it,<n id="1" /> they followed him on foot from the towns.<n id="2" />

So then, if someone<n id="1" /> says to you, &#8216;Look, he is in the wilderness,&#8217;<n id="2" /> do not go out, or &#8216;Look, he is in the inner rooms,&#8217; do not believe him.

He was in the wilderness forty days,<n id="1" /> enduring temptations from Satan. He<n id="2" /> was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.<n id="3" />p>