And of those who say, “We are Christians,” have we accepted the covenant.  But they too have forgotten a part of what they were taught; wherefore we have stirred up enmity and hatred among them that shall last till the day of the Resurrection; and in the end will God tell them of their doings.

O people of the Scriptures! now is our Apostle come to you to clear up to you much that ye concealed of those Scriptures, and to pass over many things.  Now hath a light and a clear Book come to you from God, by which God will guide him who shall follow after his good pleasure, to paths of peace, and will bring them out of the darkness to the light, by his will:  and to the straight path will he guide them.

Infidels now are they who say, “Verily God is the Messiah Ibn Maryam (son of Mary)!  Say:  And who could aught obtain from God, if he chose to destroy the Messiah Ibn Maryam, and his mother, and all who are on the earth together?

For with God is the sovereignty of the Heavens and of the Earth, and of all that is between them!  He createth what He will; and over all things is God potent.

Say the Jews and Christians, “Sons are we of God and his beloved.”  Say:  Why then doth he chastise you for your sins?  Nay! ye are but a part of the men whom he hath created!  He will pardon whom he pleaseth, and chastise whom he pleaseth, and with God is the sovereignty of the Heavens and of the Earth, and of all that is between them, and unto Him shall all things return.

O people of the Book! now hath our Apostle come to you to clear up to you the cessation13 of Apostles, lest you should say, “There hath come to us no bearer of good tidings, nor any warner.”  But now hath a bearer of good tidings and a warner reached you.  And God is Almighty.

And remember when Moses said to his people, “O my people! call to mind the goodness of God towards you when he appointed Prophets among you, and appointed you kings, and gave you what never had been given before to any human beings: 

Enter, O my people! the holy land which God hath destined for you.  Turn not back, lest ye be overthrown to your ruin.”

They said, “O Moses!  Therein are men of might.  And verily, we can by no means enter it till they be gone forth.  But if they go forth from it, then verily will we enter in.”

Then said two men of those who feared their Lord and to whom God had been gracious, “Enter in upon them by the gate:  and when ye enter it, ye overcome!  If ye be believers, put ye your trust in God.”

They said, “O Moses! never can we enter while they remain therein.  Go thou and thy Lord and fight; for here will we sit us down.”

He said, “O my Lord, Verily of none am I master but of myself and my brother:  put thou therefore a difference between us and this ungodly people.”

He said, “Verily the land shall be forbidden them forty years:  they shall wander in the earth perplexed.  Fret not thyself therefore for the ungodly people.”