And He—the Exalted—also says:

“The Christians say, ‘The Messiah is the son of Allah.’” [Al-Tawbah: 30]

Now, the Christians have actually voiced all three of these claims, and Allah has cited those very statements from them. Yet some people imagine that each saying belongs to a different faction among them—one group holding this view, another holding that—just as a number of exegetes have reported, including Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī, al-Thaʿlabī, and others. At times, they further relate that the Jacobite sect declares that Jesus is Allah