The New American Standard Bible is generally regarded as the most literal of the major English translations, which makes it the natural text to pair with notes written to explain what the words actually say.

John MacArthur's verse-by-verse notes come out of more than fifty years in one pulpit, and this fully redesigned second edition carries nearly 25,000 of them, together with 190 in-text maps and charts, book introductions, an index to key Bible doctrines and a concordance. More than two million copies of The MacArthur Study Bible are in use. Brown Leathersoft binding.