Thomas Summers' Commentaries on Matthew, Mark, and Luke (3 vols.)

These technical commentaries are not for Sunday school. Systematic theologian and liturgist Thomas O. Summers delivers verse-by-verse analysis on Matthew, Mark, and Luke, leading readers to draw their own theological interpretation. Written by one of the leading Methodist theologians (if not the leading Methodist theologian) of the nineteenth century, this commentary wastes no time explaining the historical and linguistic background of each phrase in each verse. Direct and somewhat lexical, the brevity of his sentences allow him to comment on almost every word of each verse—making the commentary notes almost three times longer than each Gospel commented on.