Bible Commentary
Verse-by-verse and chapter-by-chapter commentary from the scholars who shaped this platform, available free for personal study.
J.N. Darby · Translator's Notes
The lettered footnotes to Darby's New Translation: Hebrew and Greek words, variants and renderings, beside the text in the reader. 1,133 chapters across 62 books. His Synopsis of the Books of the Bible is a different work, not carried here, read free at stempublishing.com.
Chuck Smith · C2000 Bible Commentary
Verse-by-verse teaching commentary from Chuck Smith's 30-year C2000 series covering the entire Bible. Calvary Chapel pastor, free offer of the gospel, pre-trib.
Matthew Henry · Commentary on the Whole Bible
The most comprehensive single-author verse-by-verse commentary in the English language. Written 1706–1714. Rich in application, devotional depth, and cross-reference.
John Wesley · Explanatory Notes
Wesley's concise verse-by-verse notes, precise, pastoral, and focused on the plain meaning of the text. 1,178 chapters across 65 books, not the New Testament alone: Philemon is the one book missing.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Bible Commentary
A collaborative 19th-century commentary combining the exegetical strengths of three Scottish scholars. Covers the whole Bible with particular depth in the original languages and historical context.
Gaebelein's Annotated Bible
Arno Gaebelein's dispensational commentary on the whole Bible. Premillennial, pre-trib, with strong prophetic emphasis and careful attention to the Jewish background of Scripture.
H.A. Ironside · Bible Notes
Harry Ironside's accessible verse-commentary notes. Ironside was a prolific Brethren-movement teacher whose clear, practical expositions cover most of the New Testament and selected Old Testament books.
Scofield Reference Notes
C.I. Scofield's reference notes from the original 1909 edition: the dispensational framework that defined a century of Bible study. 942 chapters across 65 books.
Wilder-Smith · Science & Scripture
A.E. Wilder-Smith on the harmony of rigorous science and Genesis.
J. Vernon McGee · Notes & Outlines
Dr. J. Vernon McGee's introduction to every book of the Bible and his printed outline of it, provided by THRU the BIBLE. He outlines passages rather than commenting verse by verse, so in the reader his card shows the outline section covering the passage you are reading, with his book introduction beside it.
Whosoever Will Commentary
Verse-by-verse commentary written from a Provisionist, pre-trib, dispensational perspective. Built on the seven threads. This is the primary commentary source in the Bible reader.