Matthew 4:3

³During that time the devil came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.”c

Matthew 4 opens with Jesus being led into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil, a direct confrontation that echoes Israel's testing in the desert. After forty days of fasting, Jesus resists each temptation by quoting Scripture, demonstrating his faithfulness where Israel failed