This is the reason why the Grand Inquisitor says that they have no need of Jesus anymore.
He is cynical and believes that since most human beings are weak, they would never truly appreciate the high form of spiritual freedom that Jesus offers. The Grand Inquisitor, working into his aforementioned framework, believes that the Freedom that Jesus offers is too much since people would not know what to do with it. Because, if He really cares for His people, he should simply give him the material needs that they desire instead of the "flim-flam Word of God". The Grand Inquisitor states that basically, Jesus should simply have done all three temptations if He really cares for his people. The last is a refutation to those who cling to power and believe that the glory of Earth is greater than the Eternal Glory of heaven. The second is a refutation to people who keep on saying (I've been personally liable to this) of praying to God to perform miracles in their lives or certain things as "proof" that He loves them. Who believe the purpose of God is only to provide them Earthly materials. Who believe that God should be the one to sustain them in their materialistic wants. The first is a refutation to people of materialistic needs. But Jesus is not tempted, of course, since the promise He has given the people is of a higher Kingdom, that of the Kingdom of Heaven in paradise. In this one, Jesus is promised rulership of all the Kingdoms of the world if He worships Satan. But to do this test would have been to doubt His Father by testing Him in the first place.
Satan asks Him, as a show of God's love for him since He is His Son, to throw himself off the height of the temple since angels will save him anyway. This one is relatively easy to understand. It is the power of His Faith in His Father that sustains him. Christ rejects this, because, as He said, Man cannot live on bread alone. The purpose of the fast is spiritual and by being tempted into it, it will prove Satan's point that He, Jesus Himself, could not sustain himself spiritually and is therefore liable to the materialistic nature of the world (in what the bread represents). When Christ does this, He breaks his fast. The miracle of turning bread into stone to relieve Christ's hunger. The miracles that Satan tells him to do are not miracles to be done towards others (such as the rising of the dead) but to be towards Himself. Why, then, does he reject the temptation of Satan's miracles? Because of what they entail.
This is reminiscent of the miracles he performed in the Gospels. He does it of his own volition and sincerity. Jesus performs miracles to the people because, well, He is God the Son. The difference lies between the nature of the miracles he performs towards the people when he first came and what Satan asks of him. This is reflective of Ivan's cynical view of humanity throughout the novel. The framework that the Grand Inquisitor works upon is that Humanity is a weak, materialistic being. The first and foremost thing is we have to understand what the entire point of the story of the Grand Inquisitor is all about. It is my personal interpretation of the story.
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