SAEED-IBN-JOBAIR has narrated that the above verses were sent down on the occasion that the Nighsh of Abyssinia, who was a truthful Christian, sent a group of seventy priests to Medina to study what sort of religion Islam was; and that, what was the Message which Mohammad had to convey.
When they visited our prophet, he rehearsed to them the SUREH, YÄ-SIN of Qurän. They all wept and shed tears for the love of God, and converted saying:-
``....We believe in this. It is a truth from our Lord. We were submitters to the will of God before this.''
This verse is an evidence that a group of the people of the Book were converted when a part of the Holy Qurän was rehearsed to them.