Luke 4:3

3 And the devil said unto Him, "If Thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread."

Luke 4:3 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 4:3

And the devil said unto him
Who now visibly appeared, and spoke unto him with an articulate voice:

if thou be the Son of God;
as has been just now declared by a voice from heaven; or seeing thou art in such a relation to God, and so equal to him, and possessed of all divine perfections, and among the rest, of almighty power; wherefore, since thou art hungry, and in a wilderness, where no food is to be had,

command this stone that it be made bread;
say but the word, and this stone, which he held out to him, or pointed at, as lying before them, or any one of the stones, which were in sight, for Matthew speaks of them in the plural number, will immediately be converted into bread, if he was what he was said to be: this he suggests might easily be effected by him, and he had no need to continue hungry.

Luke 4:3 In-Context

1 And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

2 and for forty days was tempted by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward when they were ended, He hungered.

3 And the devil said unto Him, "If Thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread."

4 And Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written: `Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'"

5 And the devil, taking Him up onto a high mountain, showed unto Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.