(The foolish of the people will say…) [2:142].
This was revealed about the change of the qiblah.
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Ja‘far informed us> Zahir ibn Ahmad> al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Mus‘ab> Yahya ibn Hakim> ‘Abd Allah ibn Raja’> Isra’il> Abu Ishaq> al-Bara’ who said: “When the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, went to Medina, he prayed toward the direction of Jerusalem for sixteen or seventeen months. But Allah’s Messenger, Allah bless him and give him peace, liked to be directed in prayer toward the Ka‘bah. Allah, exalted is He, revealed (We have seen the turning of thy face to heaven) up to the end of the verse [2:144]”. The foolish among people, who are none other than the Jews, said: (What hath turned them from the qiblah which they formerly observed?) Allah, exalted is He, said: (Unto Allah belong the East and the West) up to the end of the verse. This is narrated by Bukhari from the report of ‘Abd Allah ibn Raja’.
Asbab Al-Nuzul by Al-Wahidi , trans. Mokrane Guezzou