Luke 4:3

3 dixit autem illi diabolus si Filius Dei es dic lapidi huic ut panis fiat

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 Iesus autem plenus Spiritu Sancto regressus est ab Iordane et agebatur in Spiritu in desertum

2 diebus quadraginta et temptabatur a diabolo et nihil manducavit in diebus illis et consummatis illis esuriit

3 dixit autem illi diabolus si Filius Dei es dic lapidi huic ut panis fiat

4 et respondit ad illum Iesus scriptum est quia non in pane solo vivet homo sed in omni verbo Dei

5 et duxit illum diabolus et ostendit illi omnia regna orbis terrae in momento temporis