The People of the Scripture ask you to bring down to them (4:153)

Almuntakhab Fi Tafsir Alquran Alkarim

And insolently do Ahl al-Kitab (the Jews) ask you O Muhammad for a Book that you would cause to descend upon them from heaven! But greater was their irreverence to Mussa (Moses) whom they asked to show them Allah personally so that they perceive Him by sight. There and then did heaven thunder against them and the fearful echoes thundered in their ears in consequence of their blasphemy against Allah. And worse was the reverence and veneration they paid to the calf which they worshipped and adored besides Allah. And this odd disposition, strangely ran in their heads after they had received enough signs to guide them out of want of spiritual and intellectual sight into illumination and enlightenment Yet We pardoned them and remitted the penalty of their serious offence and We conferred on Mussa delegated power and made him stand manifest of authority

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(4:153) The People of the Book now ask of you to have a Book come down on them from heaven; *181 indeed they asked of Moses even greater things than this, for they said: 'Make us see Allah with our own eyes' - whereupon the thunderbolt suddenly smote them for their wickedness. *182 Then they took to worshipping the calf after clear signs had come to them. *183 Still, We forgave them, and conferred a manifest commandment upon Moses,

The People of the Scripture ask you to bring down to them meaning

*181). One of the odd demands which the Jews of Madina made to the Prophet (peace be on him) was that if he wanted them to accept his claim to prophethood he should have them either witness a book descending from the heavens or that each one of them should receive a writ from on high, confirming Muhammad's prophethood and the absolute necessity of believing in him.
*182). The purpose here is not to describe the details of any particular event, but merely to mention, in brief, the crimes of the Jews. Hence passing references are made to the main incidents in the national history of the Jews. The particular event referred to has been mentioned earlier in Surah al-Baqarah. (See Towards Understanding the Qur'an, vol. I, Surah 2: 55; also n. 71.)
*183). 'Clear signs' refer here to the signs which people had constantly witnessed from the time of Moses' appointment to his prophetic office, to the drowning of Pharaoh and the deliverance of the Israelites out of Egypt. It is clear that He Who had secured the deliverance of the Israelites from the clutches of the powerful Egyptian empire was not the calf, but God, the Lord of the Universe. One is simply staggered at the overpowering predisposition of the Jews to error, as evidenced by the fact that at that very juncture in their history when they had experienced the most illustrious signs of God's power and grace they bowed down before the image of the calf, rather than before God, their Benefactor.
 

The People of the Scripture ask you to bring down to them meaning in Urdu

یہ اہل کتاب اگر آج تم سے مطالبہ کر رہے ہیں کہ تم آسمان سے کوئی تحریر اُن پر نازل کراؤ تو اِس سے بڑھ چڑھ کر مجرمانہ مطالبے یہ پہلے موسیٰؑ سے کر چکے ہیں اُس سے تو اِنہوں نے کہا تھا کہ ہمیں خدا کو علانیہ دکھا دو اور اِسی سرکشی کی وجہ سے یکایک اِن پر بجلی ٹوٹ پڑی تھی پھر انہوں نے بچھڑے کو اپنا معبود بنا لیا، حالانکہ یہ کھلی کھلی نشانیاں دیکھ چکے تھے اس پر بھی ہم نے اِن سے درگزر کیا ہم نے موسیٰؑ کو صریح فرمان عطا کیا