Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Baqara, Ayah 100
أَوَكُلَّمَا عَٰهَدُوا۟ عَهْدًۭا نَّبَذَهُۥ فَرِيقٌۭ مِّنْهُم ۚ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ
Is it not [true] that every time they took a covenant a party of them threw it away? But, [in fact], most of them do not believe.
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(Is it ever so that when they make a covenant) i.e. the Jewish leaders with Muhammad (a party of them set it aside?) reject and break it. (The truth is, most of them) all of them in fact (believe not).
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
Why whenever they make a covenant with God that they will believe in the Prophet s when he appears or that they will not give assistance to the idolaters against the Prophet s does a party of them reject it? cast it away repudiating it this is the response to the clause beginning with kullamā the interrogative of rebuke. Nay bal indicates a transition but most of them are disbelievers.