The New Testament for Everyone Series: Commentaries (18 vols.)

by N. T. Wright

Publishers:

SPCK; Westminster John Knox

, 2004–2011

Overview

The New Testament for Everyone Series (18 vols.) provides a series of guides to the books of the New Testament. N.T. Wright has undertaken a tremendous task: to provide guides to all the books of the New Testament, and to furnish them with his own fresh translation of the entire text.

Throughout the series, Wright’s own translation is combined with a highly readable discussion, with background information, useful explanation and interpretation, and thoughts as to how the text can be relevant to our lives today.

Key Features

• Offers fresh translation of the entire text
• Provides background information about each text
• Discusses the relevance of the text for today
• Includes a glossary of words and phrases for further explanation

Endorsements

This enterprise is probably the most exciting thing to have happened in Christian education in Britain for many years.

—Expository Times

Wright writes wonderfully, accessibly, and as smooth as fine chocolate.

—Ship of Fools website

Tom Wright is just about the most insightful and incendiary conversation partner for today’s preachers.

—William H. Willimon, author of Pastor: The Theology and Practice of Ordained Ministry

No other commentary series comes even close.

—The Christian Century

Product Details

• Title: New Testament for Everyone Series
• Author: N.T. Wright
• Series: New Testament for Everyone
• Publisher: SPCK
• Volumes: 18
• Pages: 4,080

Matthew for Everyone, pt. 1

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2002
• Pages: 240

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

N.T. Wright’s eye-opening comments on the Gospel and what it might mean for us are combined, passage by passage, with his new translation of the Bible text. This volume discusses Matthew 1–15.

Matthew For Everyone, pt. 2

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2002
• Pages: 240

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Part two elaborates on the latter half of the Gospel of Matthew, covering chapters 16–28.

Mark for Everyone

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2001
• Pages: 256

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

N.T. Wright’s eye-opening comments on the gospel and what it might mean for us are combined, passage by passage, with his own fresh and involving translation. Wright captures the urgency and excitement of Mark’s gospel in a way few writers have.

Pastors, evangelists, and Sunday school teachers will love this.

—CBA Marketplace, March 2004

Luke for Everyone

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2001
• Pages: 336

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

N.T. Wright’s guide to Luke, which includes a wealth of information and background detail, provides real insights for our understanding of the story of Jesus and its implications for the reader.

In this series [Wright] excels as a communicator, making this the most exciting study guide since Barclay’s Daily Study Bible.

—The Expository Times

Wright writes well and with an easy style. The short commentaries tackle New Testament books without being weighed down.

—Publishers Weekly

John for Everyone, pt. 1

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2004
• Pages: 192

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Part 1 of John for Everyone of the For Everyone commentary series, discusses John 1–10.

This enterprise is probably the most exciting thing to have happened in Christian education in Britain for many years.

—The Expository Times

If you wish to meet the Jesus who broke into people’s lives while on earth, I heartily recommend these guides.

—The Christian Herald

John for Everyone, pt. 2

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2004
• Pages: 200

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Part two of John for Everyone dives into the scriptural text of the Gospel of John, chapters 11–21.

This enterprise is probably the most exciting thing to have happened in Christian education in Britain for many years.

—The Expository Times

If you wish to meet the Jesus who broke into people’s lives while on earth, I heartily recommend these guides.

—The Christian Herald

Acts for Everyone, pt. 1

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 240

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Renowned scholar N.T. Wright brings us the latest volumes in his acclaimed For Everyone series of New Testament commentaries: Acts for Everyone, parts one and two. Part one covers chapters 1–12. Each of these brief guides offers a short passage of text, in Wright’s own accessible translation, followed by a highly readable and thought-provoking discussion.

A rare event: a commentary that is learned without being stuffy, accessible without being reductionist. N.T. Wright joins us in our homes and workplaces, our sanctuaries and classrooms, in genial, prayerful conversation over this text that forms our lives, the New Testament Scriptures.

—The Christian Century

There is now an immense hunger in our society for the Bible. Many folk want access to it, without the usual shrill authoritarian trappings. These studies by Wright are exactly to the point . . . well grounded in scholarship, accessible, and intensely contemporary. The series is a most welcome one!

—Walter Brueggemann, professor emeritus, Columbia Theological Seminary

Acts for Everyone, pt. 2

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 256

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Renowned scholar N.T. Wright brings us the latest volumes in his acclaimed For Everyone series of New Testament commentaries: Acts for Everyone, parts one and two. Part two covers chapters 13–28.

Paul for Everyone: Romans, pt. 1

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2004
• Pages: 192

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Writing in an anecdotal and approachable style, N.T. Wright helps us to see the great sweep of the letter to the Romans. This long-awaited two-volume addition to the hugely popular For Everyone series will be ideal for daily Bible study, a preaching aid, or for those readers who are looking to deepen their understanding of this classic New Testament book.

Paul for Everyone: Romans, pt. 2

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2004
• Pages: 192

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Paul for Everyone: Romans, pt. 2 delves into chapters 9–16 of this Pauline epistle.

Paul for Everyone: 1 Corinthians

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2003
• Pages: 272

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Wright shows us the liveliness of cosmopolitan Corinth in this commentary, and reveals the wisdom and challenge of Paul’s writing, bringing out the pastoral sensitivity and deep insight that make this letter one of Paul’s crowning achievements.

Paul for Everyone: 2 Corinthians

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2003
• Pages: 176

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Writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, N.T. Wright helps us to understand from the beginning of the letter, that something unexplained, yet terrible had happened. We feel the pain of Paul from the very opening lines, as he confronts dreadful issues of sorrow and hurt, emerging with a clearer picture of what it meant to say that Jesus himself suffered for us and rose in triumph. The letter itself moves through tragedy and from there leads into the sunlight.

Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2002
• Pages: 192

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N.T. Wright’s eye-opening comments on these letters are combined, passage by passage, with his new translation of the Bible text. Making use of his true scholar’s understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Wright captures the tension and excitement of the time as the letters seek to assert Paul’s authority and his teaching against other influences.

Paul for Everyone: The Prison Letters

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2002
• Pages: 240

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Paul wrote the letters while in prison facing possible death, but their passion and energy are undimmed. They reveal Paul’s longing to see young churches grow in faith and understanding, rooted in Jesus himself, and to see this faith worked out in practice—in one case, through the rehabilitation of a runaway slave. Wright’s stimulating comments are combined with his own translation of the Bible text.

Paul for Everyone: The Pastoral Letters

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2003
• Pages: 192

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Writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, N.T. Wright helps us to see the pastoral nature of these three letters. They are not just instruction books for junior disciples, but a guide to a way of life, and in many ways appropriate to all Christians.

Two strands in particular run through the letters. First, Paul is anxious that those who profess the faith should allow the gospel to transform the whole of their lives, right down to the deepest parts of their personality. Second, he is anxious that every teacher of the faith should know how to build up the community in mutual support, rather than tear it apart through the wrong sort of teaching and behavior.

Hebrews for Everyone

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2003
• Pages: 208

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Writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, N.T. Wright helps us to find our way round the letter to the Hebrews, one of the most bracing and challenging writings in the New Testament. He acknowledges that people often find it difficult, because some of the ideas it contains are strange to us. Yet, like meeting a new friend, he helps us to find it full of interest and delight, with a powerful message that comes home to today’s and tomorrow’s church as much as it did to yesterday’s. This volume covers the entire book of Hebrews.

Early Christian Letters for Everyone

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2011
• Pages: 240

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Writing in an accessible style, N.T. Wright opens up the wisdom of the letters of James, Peter, John, and Judah (Jude). A vital resource for every church and every Christian, these letters are full of clear, practical advice. Written for those new to the faith, they warn of the dangers and difficulties a young church community would face both within and without, while reveling in the delight of budding faith, hope, and life. Today, these letters are just as relevant as they were 2,000 years ago. They continue to help Christians live with genuine faith in a complex modern age.

Revelation for Everyone

• Author: N.T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2011
• Pages: 240

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Blending scholarly thinking with a conversational style, N.T. Wright helps us to negotiate the final book of the Bible, regarded by many as the most difficult to understand. He encourages us to see how the Revelation of John offers one of the clearest, sharpest visions of God’s ultimate purpose for the whole of creation: the overthrow of evil and the victory of God. In a world that often seems filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, John’s glorious images of the end of days are a clarion call to all Christians to be tireless, faithful witnesses of God’s love.

About N.T. Wright

Nicholas Tom Wright, commonly known as N.T. Wright or Tom Wright, is a professor of New Testament and early Christianity at St. Andrews University. Previously, he was the bishop of Durham. He has researched, taught, and lectured on the New Testament at McGill, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities, and has been named by Christianity Today a top theologian. He is best known for his scholarly contributions to the historical study of Jesus and the New Perspective on Paul. His work interacts with the positions of James Dunn, E.P. Sanders, Marcus Borg, and Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Wright has written and lectured extensively around the world, authoring more than 40 books and numerous articles in scholarly journals and popular periodicals. He is best known for his Christian Origins and the Question of God series, of which three of the anticipated six volumes are finished.