It is not appropriate for someone who Allah has blessed with the Scripture, wisdom, and prophethood to say to people, “Worship me instead of Allah.” Rather, he would say, “Be devoted to the worship of your Lord ˹alone˺—by virtue of what you read in the Scripture and what you teach.”
Explanation
These two readings are complementary in meaning. The knowledge of scripture should have been enough to make the learned Jews abide by the teachings, let alone their act of teaching it to others [al-Farisi].