And how should God go about to punish you, if ye be thankful and believe? for God is grateful and wise.  God loveth not the speaking ill of anyone in public, unless he who is injured call for assistance; and God heareth and knoweth:  whether ye publish a good action, or conceal it, or forgive evil, verily God is gracious and powerful.  They who believe not in God and his apostles, and would make a distinction between God and his apostles, and say, We believe in some of the prophets, and reject others of them, and seek to take a middle way in this matter; these are really unbelievers, and we have prepared for the unbelievers an ignominious punishment.  But they who believe in God and his apostles, and make no distinction between any of them, unto those will we surely give their reward; and God is gracious and merciful.  They who have received the scriptures will demand of thee, that thou cause a book to descend unto them from heaven:  they formerly asked of Moses a greater thing than this; for they said, Show us God visibly.  Wherefore a storm of fire from heaven destroyed them, because of their iniquity.  Then they took the calf for their God:  after that evident proofs of the divine unity had come unto them; but we forgave them that, and gave Moses a manifest power to punish them.  And we lifted the mountain of Sinai over them, when we exacted from them their covenant; and said unto them, Enter the gate of the city worshipping.  We also said unto them, Transgress not on the Sabbath day.  And we received from them a firm covenant, that they would observe these things.  Therefore for that[76] they have made void their covenant, and have not believed in the signs of God, and have slain the prophets unjustly, and have said, Our hearts are uncircumcised (but God hath sealed them up, because of their unbelief; therefore they shall not believe, except a few of them):  and for that they have not believed on Jesus, and have spoken against Mary a grievous calumny; and have said, Verily we have slain Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the apostle of God; yet they slew him not, neither crucified him, but he was represented by one in his likeness; and verily they who disagreed concerning him,[77] were in a doubt as to this matter, and had no sure knowledge thereof, but followed only an uncertain opinion.  They did not really kill him; but God took him up unto himself:  and God is mighty and wise.  And there shall not be one of those who have received the scriptures, who shall not believe in him, before his death;[78] and on the day of resurrection he shall be a witness against them.  Because of the iniquity of those who Judaize, we have forbidden them good things, which had been formerly allowed them; and because they shut out many from the way of God, and have taken usury, which was forbidden them by the law, and devoured men’s substance vainly:  we have prepared for such of them as are unbelievers a painful punishment.  But those among them who are well grounded in knowledge, and the faithful,