The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."
Command this stone that it become bread ...  The temptation here was that of suggesting that Jesus should use his own miraculous power to meet his daily needs.  Both Satan and Jesus knew that the Lord had ample power to do this; but, if Jesus had done it, it would have indicated a failure to rely on the Father.  It would have been taking things into his own hands.  Here appears one of the most enticing aspects of temptation.  The need which the situation required to be met was genuine, legitimate, and altogether honorable; but Christ did not fall into the error of meeting legitimate need by illegal and forbidden means.  If Christ had met his own physical need by such a miracle as Satan suggested, it would have given Christ an unfair advantage not enjoyed by all other mortals, thus compromising the intent and purpose of the incarnation itself.  Furthermore it would have pointed away from Jesus' purpose of saving men from their sins, and toward the alleviation of their earthly and physical needs.  As Ash said, "Jesus did not come to supply bread for humanity but to answer their deeper needs."[8]