Luke 4:3

3 And the devil said to him, If thou art God's Son [If thou be God's Son], say to 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 full of the Holy Ghost turned again from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into desert

2 forty days, and was tempted of the devil, and [he] ate nothing in those days; and when those days were ended, he hungered.

3 And the devil said to him, If thou art God's Son [If thou be God's Son], say to this stone, that it be made bread.

4 And Jesus answered to him, It is written, That a man liveth not in bread alone, but in every word of God.

5 And the devil led him into an high hill, and showed to him all the realms of the world in a moment of time;