Bible Commentaries

In this volume, Pheme Perkins mines the writings from Nag Hammadi and Qumran for illuminating parallels to Ephesians, showing how a first-century a...

From the second century to the present, 2 Corinthians offers its riches grudgingly,if at all; and even then it demands only the most careful and at...

The truth behind the phrase “for me to live is Christ” transforms our responses to present imperfections and future hope. Johnson’s commentary—grou...

Learn how the story of Joseph prefigures the gospel, testifying to God’s electing grace and showing how he redeems and restores broken and dysfunct...

The book of Isaiah is a tale of two cities: the Jerusalem Isaiah knew, and the Jerusalem that he saw. We are introduced to both in the opening five...

Do you enjoy reading other people's correspondence, especially the letters of famous people? This book explores two of the great Apostle Paul's ea...

Is God responsible for natural disasters? Some would say that he punishes us by sending storms and floods. In Joel's time, Judah was suffering the ...

God overrules for good the activities of those who teach false doctrine. In the days of the apostles, for example, we see these activities being ov...

The book of 2 Samuel centers around the reign of Israel’s greatest king, David. Beginning with the record of David’s triumphs, it reaches a climax ...

The first readers of the book of Revelation were members of 7 churches in Asia Minor. These believers were facing difficult and harsh circumstances...

The Psalms, the longest book in the Bible, has been described as the national hymn-book of the people of Israel in the Old Testament. Full of emoti...

The Book of Proverbs has one central message (how to gain wisdom) and deals with an extensive array of practical topics including vocation, financi...

The world is a sea of glass: a pageant of fond delight, a theatre of vanity, a labyrinth of error, a gulf of grief, a sty of filthiness, a vale of ...

The first Gospel, written by one of the least conspicuous of the twelve apostles, is a book of primary importance. Dr Hendriksen’s massive commenta...

When John Mark wrote out his ‘good news’ about Jesus two thousand years ago, his Gospel was a completely new kind of book. No one had ever written ...

Isaiah has been called ‘the evangelical prophet’. These sermons are a summary of his entire message and of God’s way of salvation. The root cause o...

This is a newly typeset edition of the only commentary on a complete New Testament book ever written by C. H. Spurgeon. Originally published as The...

In his first sermon in his series on the opening chapters of the Gospel of John, begun in October 1962, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones made the arresting r...

Let’s Study Colossians and Philemon will help readers to see the horizons of both letters as extending to the church of all ages. Paul shows us tha...

Saving a Fallen World. At the heart of Luke's Gospel is the truth that God sent his Son to 'seek and to save what was lost'. More than any of the o...

The book of Numbers bridges the gap between the exodus from Egypt and the entry into the promised land, when God’s people were in transit between p...

The prophecies of Micah and Nahum were delivered to the people of the southern kingdom of Judah although Nahum’s message came about one hundred yea...

The epistle of James is a manual for practical godliness. Everything is here, including facing trials, blaming God for misfortunes, snobbery, sharp...

Israel hid the emptiness and godliness of a corrupt society behind an apathetic and nominal outward religion, like so many today. God's view of our...

‘It is Isaiah’s conviction that the church needs to remember the consequences of God’s holy character and live accordingly if she is to experience ...

Genesis is a book about beginnings — the creation of the universe, the formation of mankind, the establishment of the covenant and the founding of ...