This app draws on centuries of biblical scholarship to help you understand scripture. Here is a full explanation of where the commentary, word study data, and AI responses come from.
Matthew Henry was a Welsh Nonconformist minister whose Exposition of the Old and New Testaments remains one of the most widely read Bible commentaries in the world. It covers every chapter of the Bible with practical, devotional, and theological insight.
His commentary is known for its readable prose, its attention to the moral and spiritual application of each passage, and its warm pastoral tone. It is thoroughly grounded in the Protestant Reformed tradition.
John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, wrote concise explanatory notes on both the Old and New Testaments. His notes are verse-by-verse, focused on plain meaning, and shaped by his Arminian theology — emphasising God's grace available to all people and the call to holy living.
Wesley drew heavily on the scholarship of Johann Bengel and other Protestant commentators, while translating complex ideas into language accessible to ordinary readers.
The app draws on an extensive collection of Christian writings spanning nearly two thousand years of church history. Early figures include Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Justin Martyr, Origen of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, Augustine of Hippo, and Jerome. Medieval writers include Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Thomas Aquinas. Reformation-era voices include John Calvin, Martin Luther, and Ulrich Zwingli. More recent figures such as C.S. Lewis also appear in the collection.
These writings offer perspective on how Christians across different centuries, traditions, and cultures understood and applied the biblical text.
The following Bible translations are available in the app. Each has different licensing terms which we observe:
When you tap a word, the app looks up its original biblical language form — Hebrew for the Old Testament, Greek for the New Testament. It shows the transliteration (how it is pronounced), the lexical definition, and contextual notes on how the word is used in scripture.
This helps you understand nuances that can be lost in translation, such as the range of meaning behind a single Greek or Hebrew word, or how the same word is used differently across different authors.
The theological analysis and follow-up chat features are powered by an AI language model. Crucially, the AI is given the actual text of the relevant commentaries for each passage — it does not answer from general knowledge alone.
When the AI cites Matthew Henry, Wesley, or historic church writings, it is drawing on the real retrieved text from those sources. It is instructed to indicate when a source is not available for a given passage rather than invent content.