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42. The angels said, "O Mary, God has chosen you, and has purified you. He has chosen you over all the women of the world."43. "O Mary, be devoted to your Lord, and bow down, and kneel with those who kneel."44. These are accounts from the Unseen which We reveal to you. You were not with them when they cast their lots as to which of them would care for Mary; nor were you with them as they quarreled.45. The Angels said, "O Mary, God gives you good news of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, highly distinguished in this world and the next, and one of the nearest.46. He will speak to the people from the crib, and in adulthood, and will be among the righteous."47. She said, "My Lord, how can I have a child when no human has touched me?" He said, "It will be so. God creates whatever He wills. When He decides on an issue, He says to it, 'Be!' and it is."48. And He will teach him the Scripture and wisdom, and the Torah and the Gospel.49. And a messenger to the Children of Israel: "I have come to you with a sign from your Lord. I make for you out of clay the shape of a bird; then I breathe in it, and it becomes a bird by God's leave. And I heal the blind and the leprous, and I revive the dead, by God's leave. And I prophesy what you eat, and what you store in your homes. In this is a sign for you, if you are believers."50. "And confirming what is before me of the Torah, and to make permissible for you some of what was forbidden to you. I have come to you with a sign from your Lord. So reverence God, and obey me."51. "God is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. This is a straight path."52. When Jesus sensed disbelief on their part, he said, "Who are my helpers towards God?" The disciples said, "We are God's helpers; we have believed in God, so bear witness that we are submitters."53. "Our Lord, we believed in what You have revealed, and we followed the Messenger, so count us among the witnesses."54. They plotted, and God planned, but God is the Best of planners.55. God said, "O Jesus, I am completing your life, and raising you to Me, and clearing you of those who disbelieve. And I will make those who follow you above those who disbelieve, until the Day of Resurrection. Then to Me is your return, and I will judge between you regarding your disputes.56. As for those who disbelieve, I will punish them with severe punishment, in this life and the next, and they will have no helpers.57. And as for those who believe and do good works, He will pay them their rewards in full. God does not love the unjust."58. This is what We relate to you of the Verses and the Wise Reminder.59. The example of Jesus with God is like Adam: He created him from dust, then He said to him, "Be!" and he was.60. The truth is from your Lord, so be not of those who doubt.61. And if anyone disputes with you about him, after the knowledge that has come to you, say, "Come, let us gather our children and your children, and our women and your women, and ourselves and yourselves, then let us invoke God's curse on the liars."62. This is the true story: there is no god except God. God is the Mighty, the Wise.63. But if they turn away-God knows the corrupters.64. Say, "O People of the Scripture, come to terms common between us and you: that we worship none but God, and that we associate nothing with Him, and that none of us takes others as lords besides God." And if they refuse, say, "be witness that we are Submitters."65. O People of the Scripture! Why do you argue about Abraham, when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed until after him? Do you not reason?