Matthew 4:4

Matthew 4:1–4

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 God’s mouth.’ ”

Context note · editorial

In the wilderness temptation, Jesus answers a challenge to turn stones into bread by citing Scripture. The response concerns faithfulness under pressure, not denying that hungry people need food.