What is the Best Bible Commentary?
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Praying for you
Very sorry to hear that.
Stay strong in your faith and never give up ❤️
Just prayed for you.
I hope this can encourage you:
Last week at church, they preached on Job 2:11-3:26 and taught that in life's most difficult moments, "Don’t curse God, but approach him earnestly free to express your raw feelings". “The Bible shows over and over again that God would rather we run to him in lament then walk away from him. Approximately 1/3 of the Psalms are songs of lament. Grief can be worship too. When Jesus says, "Come to me" the only qualifier is that we are weary and carry heavy burdens. He expects us to sometimes feel this way. Tears can be prayers too. Jesus meets us where we are.
The book of Job in the Bible can be described as about human suffering/the human condition and God’s character.
Pain has purpose, like Jesus dying on the cross, and then rising again.
“Love is patient, love is kind...It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Hope this encourages you sister in Christ.
Said a prayer for you. Praying that God be with you in his Love and light and peace and all good health and you and your family's needs will be met.
Dear Tiffany, may the God of truth and comfort continue to pour His Spirit upon your beautiful soul. Dear sister everyone's life experience with the Lord is different. Yours is obviously different than mine and others I'm sure.
Your faith is strong and moments of doubt arise but remember if you give up on your faith you will still have the same problems but you will truly be going through it alone.
Since God is more real than the air you breath that makes His promises real. And promises like He will never leave you nor forsake you, He will be with you always, and you are more important than everything else created are real. The bible says He holds your tears in a bottle, and when the enemy attacks you its like touching His eye. He loves you deeply and dearly, always remember this or your faith will grow weak.
I noticed you didn't mention all the wonderful things He has done and continues to do for you today. He will get you another job. He has cared for those beautiful children by giving them the most loving and caring mother they could ever have. And I can go on, remember your faith isn't determined by what you have but by who you know. Job was rich, then he lost everything, cattle, family his health and yet after losing all those things he was still rich.
Look how far He has brought you. Don't you think He can take you the rest of the way.
We are reminded to trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not on our own understanding. So trust him and realize like it says in the book of Jude that He can do far more than you can ever ask or think. And He will because He loves you. God bless you my dear sister.
JC Ryle Expository Thoughts on the Gospels.
Clear, concise, and right doctrinal commentary on the gospel. Baptist and Presbys read him.
Magnificant. He had great insight into the word of God.
Brother, this was so very helpful. Praise God!
Just found this in a search for "best commentaries". I've found my beliefs have changed over the years and I probably align more now with a "Reformed" Theology that how I was raised. This had nice me good direction on the resources to spend money on.
I have an unabridged one volume Matthew Henry commentary. I picked it up at a used book store, it is massive though, 2500 pages and very small font but it works.
Me too. My pastor gave his one volume copy to me because he knows how much I love Matthew Henry. It belonged to my pastor's father who was also a pastor. My pastor is now in his 70's. Needless to say, it is very dear to me.
@@claytonkliewer8343 Wow what a beautiful gift! I just recently started reading Matthew Henry and love his insights.
Idk how I got it I have a beautiful 3 book set of Matthew Henry's commentary. I've been reading it since the start of 2023
whomsoever invented very-small-print did not us a favor do!
@@amandasteven1400 It's cruel!
I have to agree that the best one volume commentary is your tried and true study Bible.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Another excellent one volume commentary is the NET Study Bible. It isn't very expensive and has multiple scholars that put it together.
Thank you. Great information
I’ve been enjoying the pulpit commentaries
David Guzik thru Blue Letter Bible is stellar.
Matthew Henry is a must. I used to be the vicar of the church on the England / Wales border where he was baptised and grew up, and I've held his Bible that he had infront of him whilst writing the commentary. I read him in a three-volume 19th century edition. But one commentator who deserves to be much better known is Thomas Scott. He was the vicar of a parish on rural England in the 18th century, a liberal and sceptic, who was ordained because he wanted an easy, comfortable life. But through his friendship with John Newton, the author of "Amazing Grace", the vicar of the next door parish, he was converted - the story is told in his autobiography "The Force of Truth". His commentary on the whole Bible is brilliant, but hard to get now - I have a nineteenth century edition. For simply understanding the passage, I often find him better than Henry.
That’s awesome
Good, but severely dated.
I use a variety, but I visit the one-volume International Bible Commentary for basic material on each text.
I may also check in with Ray Stedman's volumes on various books of the Bible, if he has one on what I am teaching on.
John Stott has excellent volumes in the NT, especially Romans, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, and Acts.
Warren Wiersbe gives some helpful outlines, and he gets all of his points to start with the same letter!
I really like Leon Morris, and buy him whenever I find him both in his theological works and his commentaries. Very good to read as well as for study!
IVP Tyndale commentaries are changing with each new edition. I definitely prefer the older sets (like the cream NT and the Green OT ones)
Just want to say that I really enjoy your videos and find them very informative! Keep them comming. Oh by the way I think I was born right by you,New Kensington.
Good advice
Dale Ralph Davis writes the best modern commentaries. Straight up.
That's a bold statement brother
I've been asking the same question for a while now. Ideally, I'd like to have a nice bible in a given translation (easier to carry around, fewer redundancies) and then pair it with whichever appropriate individual book commentary that I could optionally bring or leave at home. As Photographer157 said below, I've been eyeing Ligonier's excellent article on various commentaries of every book of the bible...which is almost overwhelming. There are almost too many giants' shoulders to stand on!
Popular Commentary of the Bible by P.E. Kretzmann. 4 volumes, 2 OT & 2 NT. . I have read all for volumes and it is excellent.
Matthew Henry (complete set) and Matthew Poole are my go to commentaries. I also love Hendrickson and Kistenmaker series as well as the Pillar Commentary series
I own the the Bible believers commentary single volume. Great suggestion s for Bible commentary’s
Very helpful! I have a couple of Expositional Commentaries by RC Sproul which are very good.
I use the Harper Collins study Bible. It is the new revised standard version with plenty of essays and notes in each chapter of the Bible. It represents the best of scholarship.
The New Bible Commentary for the 21st Century, ed. D.A. Carson, etc. is very useful.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, even abridged, is simply wonderful. Out of print, but you can get it online or 2nd hand copies. For instance, Zondervan Classic Reference Series. For some reason, I find Scotmen to be very good theologians.
This set by some outstanding scholars is severly dated.
I have the one volume unabridged commentary of Matthew Henry and it’s massive! I just finished the book of Genesis and I already started in Exodus but I really wish that Banner of Truth would republish the commentary of Matthew Henry in a ten volume edition. That would be nice. The print is like super small even in the six volume edition.
The kettle-bell of all commentaries =D
I have a 6-book series of Matthew Henry's commentary. Dunno where it's from, my wife bought it for me.
Just got this from a Church White Elephant Gift Exchange.
Yessss! As I'm sitting here in my laptop and phone for hours trying to find bible commentary and it's impossible I think it's a conspiracy from Hell! 😞 Enduring Word is great verse by verse commentary of the Whole bible free! 😊🙏
Thanks will look into it
Was not aware of the editors to Matthew Henry's one vol.. THX
LIFE STUDY OF THE BIBLE IS THE BEST ONE
I use many different commentaries but my main go to is the Vernon McGhee 5 volume set. I highly recommend it.
Vernon McGhee is a dispensational Armenian. Nobthanks
@@russellhenckel2887what non dispensational commentaries would you recommend?
I also use Matthew Henry.
Calvin's Commentaries are outstanding. He's almost always got an answer to a question about a text and it's really readable. I'm also conscious it's very expensive - I inherited my grandfather's set.
The Geneva Series by the Banner of Truth is also very good (quite a few of them are by Calvin, so there is a crossover)
I'm all about that second hand life. Much cheaper, even for excellent condition.
It can be very outstanding, though it is severly dated in many respects.
YOU STRIKE AGAIN! I happened upon a Jamieson Fausset and Brown at my local thrift shop for 1.50 and wanted to see if anyone had a review on it. You enforced the feeling I got when I found it, I use it now and it's amazing for a one book commentary.
Yes! Awesome!
I'm a big fan of the one-volume Believer's Bible Commentary by Thomas Nelson. The New Testament especially has some excellent and in-depth commentary that I highly recommend.
There is a reason JM’s real commentary is 33 volumes.
In reference to you saying that sometimes we might have to look at people that believe a little different than us, I just mentioned to somebody early that I am of an Arminianism (conservative) pentecostal theology but some, if not most, of my first go to theologians are Calvinism cessationists. With that, John MacArthur is my first go to for background/church history.
I'm enjoying my Believers Bible Commentary
That's the one I went with. It really is good.
Same here. The commentary is great, especially in the New Testament.
Charles Stanley daily bible has a lot of good commentaries and 50 life principles
I can't afford any at this time; but I use commentaries online. It helps but one day I prefer to get a book.
Barnes Notes is very good also. Matthew Henry is my favorite
Concordia Commentary series. Conservative Lutheran based (LCMS).
Thanks for the vid! Very insightful.
What are your thoughts on the ESV Expository Commentaries?
Also, I know you said maybe not to get the all of one set (but rather research who wrote what), but It'll look out of place on the bookshelf, haha!
Thank you Pastor Matt for this great bible review!
Video suggestion:
Can you do a review on the Greek Bible called Biblia Graeca by Alfred Rahfls?
I would love to see Matt’s review. I have done one. But I would like to see Matt’s.
Hello@@BiblicalStudiesandReviews, Yes when I saw your video it got me really interested in the Biblia Graeca!
Thank you for your video. Do you have any thoughts on the Moody Bible Commentary?
Thanks 😃
They aren’t difficult to find. Go to St. Thomas Aquinas’s Biblical commentaries (Emmaus Academic) if you can just choose one. Also the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture has commentary on every Biblical passage straight from the Church Fathers themselves.
I only use two Matthew Henry and Matthew Poole
These are severely dated.
You should really consider turning your content into podcast format. I’d enjoy listening to you banter on different topics while driving around. CZcams is not as easy to digest material that could just as easily be in podcast form.
The 2 volume Bible Knowledge Commentary is good. The first commentary I got was a one-volume unabridged edition of Matthew Henry.
BKC is from Dallas theological seminary and they are very dispensational and interject that all over the place. Just FYI. If you’re reformed and follow covenant theology then it may not be the best. Very good content still
@@russellhenckel2887 Just picked up the abridged Expositors Commentary and Wiersbe's Bible Exposition Commentary.
Do you have any recommendations for some commentaries that are only a few volumes? Like 4-6 volumes on the entire bible?
Check out the Reformation Commentary on Scripture and Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. Also love Jon Coursons Commentary for application.
I have
Holman commentary
Matthew Henry
Nelson Bible commentary
Layman's old testament and new testament commentary 2vols
And somewhere along the way I inherited an old set of S.D.A. commentaries 8vol
LOL I can never have enough books 📚! I absolutely love book's, I like adding my own notes in them for future reference
Also have a few study Bible's with commentaries
All of them contain useful information and have used them often , I call them "my fuel for thought collection "
I'm looking for more commentaries to purchase, but at same time must watch how much I spend
These books give a lot of information on Bible times/cultures
Also Bible Dictionaries are very useful also
Along with a couple of Bible handbooks
Find some kind of Bible maps
Hendrickson had a great 3 volume copy of Jamieson Faussett & Brown commentary with the KJV text on the top half of the page. Also be careful because a lot of the JFB editions out there are also greatly abridged!
I have found that the (FREE) Enduring Word app by David Guzik is an excellent FREE (to repeat myself) commentary.
Gday Matt, thanks for the advice. Just wondering about your comment on Matthew Henry. Do you know of an edition that hasn't arminianised his commentary? For example, does the Hendrickson edition do a better job of being faithful to the original work? Thanks heaps
matthew henry is 1700s so it is slightly archaic and has been updated by Martin Manser in both abridged and unabridged editions.
Thanks for this. The Tyndale Commentaries got their name from the Tyndale Fellowship which is associated with Tyndale House in Cambridge and was part of InterVarsity (thus, IVP published rather than Tyndale).
The reason John MacArthur has little comment on OT books is probably related to the fact that he chose to preach through the entire NT twice but never through the OT but only selected portions. This could be because of his dispensationalism.
Just one other note, Alec Motyer's surname is pronounced Mateer.
He just released a 400 page volume on Zechariah. Unfortunately his health is becoming an issue so I doubt we will see a full Old Testament set.
@@SaneNoMore I wish there was some information on that. The more I see him, the more unwell he looks/sounds. There was some vague talk about illness/hospitalization, a while back. But I gave up trying to find much detail because no one was saying much. I hate to be a nosy person. People deserve their privacy. But when someone is as well known as he is, it's only fair to let the public know. I don't want to wake up one day and hear he's suddenly gone and then learn things were hidden.
Matthew, brother. Could you please give us a list of your favorite commentaries by book and author. I could use the help. I mostly read my notes from Sprouls bible ad heritage study bible by Beeke.
Thank you.
Yeah I would love his list myself.
Question: I have been following your edwards note taking. My questions is do you typically write in it what you read each book of the Bible or do you you study by topic?
Thanks for the videos. Just wondering what you think about the 'Reformed Expository Commentary' series by P&R?
Hi pastor
Pastor, I have a question about the Matthew Henry commentary. I do have the six volume unabridged edition and the one volume unabridged edition in my library. Has the one volume unabridged edition been corrupted? My old set is falling apart so I purchased the one volume unabridged version this is the one put out by Hendrickson publishers. Thanks
Could you do a video on listing of your recommendations on the best commentary for each book of the Bible?
Jamieson Fausset and Brown is free on Bible Tree bible software
Spurgeon wrote in letters to my students that a church congregation should think on ensuring that their pastor has a goos library- think about gifting your pastor good books
Get the entire NICNT/OT series. Well worth it!
FF Bruce is good
I apologize if this has already been asked, but can you please give us the title and the publisher of the commentary that you cannot reach up on the shelf? I really appreciate that.
How about ESV Expository Commentary set?
i got some comentaries from niv but its on pdf and i have william mc donalds comentary on the bible sadly it is also on pdf
For New Testament, John MacArthur Commentary is 💯
It’s great, but wrong in many issues. Dispensationalism isn’t biblical and neither is believers baptism. So right there you run into many errors.
I've been a Christian since 1974 and own at least 20 different bible versions and a number of commentaries. The best bible footnotes and commentaries ('life studies') on every book in the bible that I've read are: The Recovery Version Bible & footnotes & the corresponding LSM Life Study messages. These are outstanding! I still continue to use multiple commentaries in bible studies but these are by far the best! (By the way, I am not invovled with LSM or affiliated with them.)
IVP!
Used commentaries can be found on E Bay.
nothing beats Matthew Henry. Spot on truth
Yay Leon Morris (oz guy)
Wiersbe, Frauchtenbaum, Hayford and Hendrikson, Bob Gordon, John Stot and David Pawson although not all these authors wrote commentaries their teaching is excellent! Some of these are reformed and some aren't
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Try Warren Wiersbe he's wrote a commentary which is excellent.
Do you like the JMac new testament commentaries?
I just think it would be incredibly hard to find a single theologian that will synchronize with all of someone thoughts. You know just saying!
What do you think of “Liberty bible commentary”?
As I was watching this video, my brother said “I should have some books from college in the basement”.
We go down there, and that’s the one thing we found.
what does reformed mean?
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The Moody Bible Commentary, The Bible Knowledge Commentary (2 viols), Jamieson Faussett Brown (1volume), The New Layman’s Bible Commentary
There’s no such thing as the best commentary! Most people’s best commentary is the one that agrees with their theological agenda and/or tradition!
jamieson fausset brown seem to be calvinists and it is free on the internet.
Can I please have the story of the one star review on your church? 😂
Because every successive generation thinks they know better.
John is a dispensationalist?
i used to have several commentaries and I realized all they are is peoples opinions. The Holy Spirit will reveal what the scripture is saying if you ask Him. I got rid of my commentaries.
If I had to agree with everything in a commentary to read it then there would not be any commentary in the world for me to read. I thought the whole point of a commentary was to expand your knowledge beyond what you already know and to challenge yourself to consider ideas and positions beyond what you already think. If you just want someone to confirm what you already think then you are a know it all in my opinion. No one is God and has it all right.
The truth is dispensationalism and they are almost no commentary's. If you follow the wrong theologies then you have plenty of commentary's.
As soon as I heard Johnny Mac use that modifier in front of the word “Christian,” I’m sure most Americans have heard it and many use it in our “Reformed” churches he is deceived and I’m sure it has to do with his heretical dispensational theology.
The Christian bookstores that are still left on the earth tend to sell popular level literature, and not enough of the really good commentaries that pastors need. We have to go to Amazon or Christian book. Or the awesome Southern Baptist theological seminary bookstore.
Someone emailed our church the other day and asked for good commentaries on the book of James. I told them Douglas Moo in the Pillar series, Grant Osborne, Blomberg and Kamell, R. Kent Hughes, and for free on the Internet, David Guzik. So there are good choices but as you say, they can get costly.
The ESV study Bible is excellent!
Jonny Mac is a Biblical as you can get, and eschatology and covenant baptism aren't required tenets. To say JMac is dispensational is to throw him under the bus. He isnt anything like C.I. Scofield at all. Yes he holds to pre trib rapture, but that is not the same as being dispensational. I don't know where it is theologically , but you cant call that dispensational like Scofield
MacArthur calls himself, half-jokingly, a leaky dispensationalist.
This is for you. Pretty sure I’m the last of my kind so if you want it have it.
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.-James 2-20-24
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.-Romans 4:3-8
They are both true because there are two different justifications. One by faith alone.
And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.-John 12:23-24
Which is dead but disciples and the other is life. Good ground requires works of faith. Simple as that. The ones on The Rock are saved and remains saved because they took it to heart…this:
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.-Mathew 7:21
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.-John 6:35-40
Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.-John 20:29
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.-John 3:16
The measure you use is measured unto you. The parable of the sower is context to the rock of course and if someone measures them unsaved you know they are a false prophet that is either on the rock themselves or chaff. The rock is the common salvation.
Branch out and get some good scholarship and drop his recommendations. Mac is the worst! Expand your knowledge! Get up-to-date!
_The Jewish Annotated New Testament_ by Amy-Jill Levine (Editor), Marc Zvi Brettler (Editor)
_The Jewish Study Bible:_ Second Edition by Adele Berlin (Editor), Marc Zvi Brettler (Editor)
_The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha_ by Jonathan Klawans (Editor), Lawrence M. Wills (Editor)
_The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha:_ Fifth Edition: New Revised Standard Version: by Michael Coogan (Editor), Marc Brettler (Editor), Carol Newsom (Editor), Pheme Perkins (Editor)
_HarperCollins Study Bible:_ Fully Revised & Updated by Harold W. Attridge (Author), Society of Biblical Literature (Author)
ESV Study Bible almost negates the need for a commentary
I was fortunate enough to get one on sale last year (?) & it's incredible! I haven't even scratched the surface of all it contains.
@@Yesica1993 Hi! It's GREAT to see you commenting again here! Same-same: last year(?-time flies), eBay seller's overstock. A person can swim around in the "ESV-SB" contents until their fingers get all pruny, LOL!!!
How so?
The best commentary on the Bible is the Bible itself. Avoid man made theological commentaries with a Calvinistic or Arminian bias. Let's get back to the Bible as our priority.
At 10:24 did you just laugh and say “people that believe that Jesus really rose from the dead”? Absolutely wild. What other message of salvation is there?
so Jesus said to call no man Rabbi, Teach, or Father. I wonder why pastors like identifying themselves as pastors