26 So if they should say to you, ‘Look, He is in the wilderness!’ don’t go out; ‘Look, in the secret rooms!’ don’t believe it.
Matthew 24:26 Cross References - WPNT
Matthew 3:1
1 Now in those days John the Baptist began preaching in the wilderness of Judea
2 during the high priesthood of Annas (also Caiaphas), the word of God came upon John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
3 So he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins;
Acts 21:38
38 Aren’t you the Egyptian who some time ago started a revolt and led the four thousand men of ‘the Assassins’ out into the wilderness?”