وَقَالَ الْمَلَأُ مِن قَوْمِهِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَكَذَّبُوا بِلِقَاءِ الْآخِرَةِ وَأَتْرَفْنَاهُمْ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا مَا هَذَا إِلَّا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُكُمْ يَأْكُلُ مِمَّا تَأْكُلُونَ مِنْهُ وَيَشْرَبُ مِمَّا تَشْرَبُونَ
Said the elite of his people, who were faithless and who denied the encounter of the Hereafter and whom We had given affluence in the life of the world: ‘This is just a human being like yourselves: he eats what you eat, and drinks what you drink.
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 23:33
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:33] (see commentary for verse 23)
Ali Muhammad Fazil Chinoy Commentary
Commentary on Quran 23:33-50
The proud infidels (due to power and position) decry the Prophet because he is an ordinary man, eating and drinking the same as they do, and a human imposter, desiring to raise above them, by threatening and falsifying, alleging against God, He is going to raise self above them, whereas it is not so. This being the world, where we live and die, but God helped His Prophets, after giving sufficient time to improve and remove those proud infidels, along with those who had joined hands with them. So followed one generation after another and met its destructive fate for falsification of its prophets. The fact of their subordinates believing in these prophets made them all the more obstinate. This was the case with Moses and Jesus, son of Mary.