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Bible Commentary

A commentary written this century.

Commentary on all 1,189 chapters of the Bible, 11,160 verses one at a time, and 127 of the words underneath — free, and in the English people actually speak.

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The good commentaries are old

Search for a Bible commentary and you will mostly find Matthew Henry, John Gill, Adam Clarke, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown. They are free everywhere because their copyright expired, and they are free everywhere because they are genuinely good. Henry has been read continuously for three hundred years for a reason.

They also assume you already know what a covenant is, what a kinsman-redeemer does, and why it matters that a detail appears in Matthew and not in Mark. They were written for readers who had that. Most people opening a Bible today do not, and there is no shame in it.

What this one does differently

Every chapter gets four things: what the chapter is saying, the background behind it, the themes running underneath, and why it still matters. No assumed vocabulary. Where the church has argued about a passage for centuries, it says so rather than picking a side and moving on.

Verse pages go further and carry two readings of the same verse. One is written the way a good teacher explains something they love — plain, direct, addressed to you. The other has the Hebrew or Greek in view and the scholarly argument on the table. Same verse, two depths, and you choose.

And the words have their own pages. Not a gloss, but what hesed or agape or tetelestai actually carries, what English had to choose between, and the passages where you can watch it work.

Commentary on any verse, not the ones we've reached

In the app, tap a verse and its commentary opens — all 31,102 of them, with the Hebrew or Greek under any word you tap.

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Commentary on every chapter

All 66 books. Pick one and every chapter in it has its own commentary, with the verses of 44 of them broken out one at a time.

Old Testament

39 books
Genesis50 chExodus40 chLeviticus27 chNumbers36 chDeuteronomy34 chJoshua24 chJudges21 chRuth4 ch1 Samuel31 ch2 Samuel24 ch1 Kings22 ch2 Kings25 ch1 Chronicles29 ch2 Chronicles36 chEzra10 chNehemiah13 chEsther10 chJob42 chPsalms150 chProverbs31 chEcclesiastes12 chSong of Solomon8 chIsaiah66 chJeremiah52 chLamentations5 chEzekiel48 chDaniel12 chHosea14 chJoel3 chAmos9 chObadiah1 chJonah4 chMicah7 chNahum3 chHabakkuk3 chZephaniah3 chHaggai2 chZechariah14 chMalachi4 ch

New Testament

27 books
Matthew28 chMark16 chLuke24 chJohn21 chActs28 chRomans16 ch1 Corinthians16 ch2 Corinthians13 chGalatians6 chEphesians6 chPhilippians4 chColossians4 ch1 Thessalonians5 ch2 Thessalonians3 ch1 Timothy6 ch2 Timothy4 chTitus3 chPhilemon1 chHebrews13 chJames5 ch1 Peter5 ch2 Peter3 ch1 John5 ch2 John1 ch3 John1 chJude1 chRevelation22 ch

Common questions

What is a Bible commentary?
A running explanation of Scripture, usually passage by passage: what the text says, what it meant to the people who first heard it, and what it's doing in the larger argument. A study Bible gives you footnotes; a commentary gives you the whole thread.
Is this commentary free?
Yes. Every chapter, verse and word page on this site is free to read, with no account and no advertising.
How is this different from Matthew Henry or Jamieson-Fausset-Brown?
Those are excellent and they are also two and three hundred years old. They assume a reader who already knows the vocabulary, and they were written in the English of their day. This commentary is written now, in the language people actually use, and it says plainly when scholars disagree instead of settling it in a sentence.
Does it cover every verse?
Every one of the 1,189 chapters has commentary. 11,160 individual verses have a page of their own so far, across 44 books, and that keeps growing.
Who is it written for?
Someone reading on their own who hits a line that doesn't make sense. No Greek, no seminary, no assumed background — but nothing dumbed down either. Where a passage is genuinely difficult, it says so.
Can I use it for teaching or sermon prep?
Yes. Each chapter carries a summary, the historical background, the themes running underneath, and how it applies. Verse pages add a plain-English reading and a closer scholarly one.

Start anywhere: Romans 8 · Psalm 23 · John 3:16 · Genesis 1 · hesed.

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