"It is not for a human that Allah should give him the Scripture, authority, and prophethood"—just as He gave to Jesus—"and then he says to the people, 'Be servants to me rather than Allah,'" meaning: worship me. He says: No one to whom Allah has given the Scripture, authority, and prophethood would do that.

Al-Hasan said: He (Allah) used this as an argument against them, because of their claim [that Jesus deserves to be worshipped], and because they accepted that from Allah, and it is in their Book which was sent down from Allah.

He says: "But, 'Be rabbaniyyin' (devout scholars of the Lord)," meaning: But he says to them, "Be rabbaniyyin," i.e., scholars and jurists, "because you have been teaching the Book and because you have been studying it," meaning: reading it.