World English Bible

Matthew 4:3

“The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

Verse in context — Matthew 4

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.

But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

Jesus as the promised Messiah, fulfilling Old Testament prophecy.