The stated goal of these notes is to make God known through his Word, and that purpose shapes what they do and do not attempt: they explain the text, and they leave the reader with the text rather than with the commentator.

John MacArthur's verse-by-verse study notes, book introductions and articles come out of more than fifty years of pastoral and scholarly work. This is the fully revised second edition in the New King James Version, in a brown binding with a thumb index cut into the fore-edge for quick navigation.