Quotes About Wilderness

As the day neared its end, the Twelve came to Jesus and said, “Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside for lodging and provisions. For we are in a desolate place here.”

John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: “I am a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ëMake straight the way for the Lord.í”

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

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ëHe gave them bread from heaven to eat.í”

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.

He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.

But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ëDid you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.

“Arenít you the Egyptian who incited a rebellion some time ago and led four thousand members of the ëAssassinsí into the wilderness?”

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

do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.

But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.