The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread (Luke 4:3, NIV) (NA28) εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ διάβολος· εἰ υἱὸς εἶ τοῦ θεοῦ, εἰπὲ ⸂τῷ λίθῳ τούτῳ ἵνα γένηται [a] ἄρτος⸃
I have seen some exegete the middle voice as found at γένηται to mean that it means someone else is not acting on the subject, it performs the action on itself.
I know it sounds ridiculous when applied at Luke 4:3, and so why was the middle voice used?
[a] Verb, Aorist, Middle, Subjunctive, 3rd Person, Singular