﴿When﴾ means he plotted when ﴿Allah said﴾ meaning by what He has of the uniqueness of the attributes of perfection ﴿O Jesus, indeed I will take you﴾. He expressed that in a figurative way, for indeed His protection from being killed by the disbelievers is necessitated by death naturally. As for the saying of al-Zamakhshari: meaning I will protect you from being killed by the disbelievers, and I will delay you until a term I have written for you, and I will cause you to die naturally, not by their hands - so that it may be a figurative expression indicating protection from being killed because it is necessitated by delaying him until the written term, and delaying is necessitated by death naturally - so one should not be deceived by it because it is based on the doctrine of the Mu'tazilah that the killer has cut off the written term of the killed. It seems that the judge al-Baydawi did not realize this, so he translated this phrase in a way that conveys it; and it may be that the meaning of 'I will take you' is: I will bring you to Me without them reaching you to a bloodletting or anything above it from a limb or soul, so do not fear their plotting.

It is said in the dictionary: 'So-and-so fulfilled his right': he gave it to him in full, as he fulfilled it and met him, so he fulfilled it and took it from him.

Then He, glorified and exalted is He, added in His good tidings of elevation to the place of His honor and the abode of His angels and the source of purity from impurities, saying: ﴿And I will elevate you﴾. He increased the greatness of that by saying: ﴿to Me and purify you from those who disbelieve﴾.

And when those of high aspirations have the greatest attention to what will be the conditions of their successors after them, He, glorified and exalted is He, gave him glad tidings of what would please him, saying: ﴿And I will make those who follow you﴾ meaning even by name ﴿above those who disbelieve﴾ meaning they will conceal what they know of your prophethood by what they saw of the signs that you brought, corresponding to what they have of the good tidings about you ﴿until the Day of Resurrection﴾. And so it has been, those who have been characterized by Christianity, truly or falsely, have always been above the Jews, and they will remain so until they are annihilated and none of them remains.

And when the resurrection is general, He indicated it by turning to the address, saying to complete what He had given glad tidings of regarding victory: ﴿Then to Me will be your return﴾ meaning the believer and the disbeliever in the Hereafter ﴿and I will judge between you in that in which you used to differ﴾.