Bible Commentaries

Like many other characters in Scripture, the prophet Habakkuk word for ’embrace’ and conveys the idea of a wrestler in an embrace with his opponent...

Jonah is not a book about a great fish! It is really a book about God, and how one man came, through painful experience, to discover the true chara...

Psalm 130 is perhaps the best known of all the Penitential Psalms. It contains the ardent prayer of a man who is distressed by a sense of God’s ang...

From the moment of his conversion Paul was a man of prayer. His many prayers scattered throughout his letters are among the richest sources in all ...

In this the last of three volumes on the passion and death of our Lord, C. H. Spurgeon takes us to Calvary’s Mournful Mountain, there to view afres...

In this the second of three volumes on the passion and death of our Lord, C. H. Spurgeon bids us follow Christ into The Judgment Hall and to look o...

In 1969 the Banner of Truth Trust published the first of Geoffrey Wilsons popular commentaries on the New Testament Letters. In many ways they were...

What does it mean to be filled with the Holy Spirit and is this something that is true of all Christians? What kind of person does God delight to u...

We all want to find happiness in this life, but do we know where true happiness is to be found? Richard Phillips believes the Book of Psalms has th...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, James Macdonald of Edinburgh purchased a box of old papers which had belonged to a preacher of around si...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, James Macdonald of Edinburgh purchased a box of old papers which had belonged to a preacher of around si...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, James Macdonald of Edinburgh purchased a box of old papers which had belonged to a preacher of around si...

In this volume, the third in the present series which brings together much of Dr Lloyd-Jones’ evangelistic preaching on Acts, the main incidents in...

The Pastoral Epistles, first published in 1874, is the last commentary written by Patrick Fairbairn, but his first on any of the books of the New T...

As John Calvin notes, the healing of the daughter of the Canaanite woman (described in Matthew 15 and Mark 7) shows ‘in what manner the grace of Ch...

The expositions of John Brown (1784-1858) are unusually helpful to all kinds of readers. Spurgeon said in his Commenting and Commentaries, ‘Brown i...

The outstanding preaching ministry of Thomas Manton was exercised first at Stoke Newington from 1644, then from 1656 in one of the leading Puritan ...

When Paul arrived, Corinth was prospering as ‘the fourth largest city in the roman empire, a commercial bridge between East and West. It had two h...

The content of this volume is its chief warrant for publication. But as a record of Dr. Lloyd-Jones’ first extensive series of sermons on any one b...

The author’s aim was to explain the text accurately, to clarify the geographical and historical references in Judges and to draw forth from the nar...

The Apostle Peter was a major New Testament personality—a vivid, complex and well-rounded character. His leadership was decisive in the history of ...

True wisdom, wrote John Calvin, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. With an eloquence which is itself awe-i...

Greenhill on Ezekiel, first published in five quarto volumes, constitutes one of the foremost of Puritan works in Old Testament exposition. Deliver...

This book, as suggested by C.H. Spurgeon, is ‘A capital book’, providing exegesis of the text. In addition, at the end of each section, Moore lists...

Candlish’s exposition of 1 John was the ripe fruit of years of careful and loving study of the great themes in Johannine teaching. His aim was not ...

The name of John Calvin (1509-1564) is justly renowned in a number of contexts. The Reforma­tion’s greatest systematic theologian, he was also a Ch...

It is hoped that the reader of these sermons will seek not just to confirm the sermons’ agreement with Calvinistic theology, but particularly to ex...

John Owen here analyses the text of Hebrews with care and provides a judicious interpretation which shows an impressive familiarity with a wide ran...

When Paul came to Ephesus in AD 54 it claimed to be the first city of Asia. Yet today the city is gone; and on the site of the Temple of Diana, whi...

This volume presents readers with a short series of sermons on the Beatitudes, translated for the first time into English by Robert White. They com...

The Old Testament story catches the imagination and tells of a prophet who disobeys God and of a great fish which can swallow a man; it describes a...

‘I confess that at the outset I was put off by the fear of being thought rash and arrogant if I should attempt such an undertaking after so many ex...

‘I confess that at the outset I was put off by the fear of being thought rash and arrogant if I should attempt such an undertaking after so many ex...

Authentic Christianity, Volume 5 consists of eighteen evangelistic sermons preached in Westminster Chapel on Sunday evenings between March and July...

‘I confess that at the outset I was put off by the fear of being thought rash and arrogant if I should attempt such an undertaking after so many ex...

‘I confess that at the outset I was put off by the fear of being thought rash and arrogant if I should attempt such an undertaking after so many ex...

‘I confess that at the outset I was put off by the fear of being thought rash and arrogant if I should attempt such an undertaking after so many ex...

The letters of 2 Peter and Jude share several common themes and were designed to strengthen the faith of Christians who were being unsettled by fal...

On the title page of an old Latin edition a satisfied reader made a note of his deep appreciation for Davenant’s masterpiece: ‘Don’t abuse this goo...

In Let’s Study Ephesians Sinclair Ferguson skillfully leads us through this wonderful letter, explaining its teaching with masterful simplicity and...

In this first volume of the three volume set of Spurgeon’s sermons on the passion and death of our Lord, Spurgeon takes the reader to Gethsemane, t...

In 1969 the Banner of Truth Trust published the first of Geoffrey Wilson’s popular commentaries on the New Testament Letters. In many ways they wer...

When William Hendriksen died in 1982 he had established a reputation as an outstanding biblical commentator. His  New Testament Commentary  had bec...

Luke’s Gospel is well suited to 21st century readers because it is written in a style that appeals to the imagination, deals with people’s lives, i...

A practical guide to a key New Testament book, in which the Apostle Paul teaches how the gospel must shape the believer’s life-style and relationsh...

Like the Apostle Paul, William Hendriksen (1900-82) did not write merely as an academic specialist, but for the blessing of the Christian church at...

Derek Thomas explains the issues dealt with in the letter to the Galatians and refutes the contentions of the so-called ‘new perspective’ on Paul. ...

With great insight and pastoral wisdom, David Kingdon helps us to apply lessons from the life of Joseph to our own lives. He shows that God’s peopl...