26 Therefore if they should say to you, 'Look, He is in the desert!' do not go out; or 'Look, He is in the inner rooms!' do not believe it.
Matthew 24:26 Cross References - CAB
Isaiah 40:3
3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.
Matthew 3:1
1 In those days John the Baptist arrived preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
2 in the time of the high priest Annas and the high priest Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
3 And he went into all the surrounding region of the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,
Acts 21:38
38 Are you not then the Egyptian who rose up before these days, and led forth the four thousand men of the assassins into the wilderness?"