James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary

James M. Gray (1851 - 1935) was a pastor in the Reformed Episcopal Church. He was also a Bible scholar, editor, and hymn writer, and the president of Moody Bible Institute, 1904-34. He was born in New York City, one of eight children. His father died soon after his birth and he was raised by the Episcopal church. Gray had an evangelical conversion experience around 1873. In 1870, he married Amanda Thorne, who died in 1875 while in child-birth with their fifth child.

Gray was ordained in 1877, and assumed the pastorate of a church in Brooklyn, New York for one year before moving to Boston to help grow a church there to nearly ten times its size. Throughout the 1890s, Gray worked with D. L. Moody in evangelistic campaigns in New York, Boston, and Chicago. Gray became affiliated with Moody Bible Institute serving in a variety of positions until he finally became president from 1904 to 1934.

Theologically, Gray was a fundamentalist who held to the inspiration of the Bible and opposed the social gospel trend. Gray was a dispensationalist who believed in the return of Jesus Christ at the Rapture. Gray wrote 25 books and pamphlets, some of which remain in print. He also wrote a number of hymns, perhaps the best known of which is Only a Sinner, Saved by Grace.

His Bible commentary is one of Gray's most important. A concise on point commentary to every book of Bible.

This e-book form of the commentary is cross-linked to the World English Bible.