This is a tremendous help for understanding the New Testament. The translation itself is good. I feel comfortable with the King James version, even though nobody actually speaks that way anymore. This doesn't really feel a lot different. It is different - up to date - but it is certainly saying the same things. The notes are worth the price of admission all by themselves. There are several kinds of notes. Some of them explain the context of what is happening in the account. Some of them explain the background of the culture and the times, so that the stories and examples make more sense. Some of them explain translator's choices where the original Greek could have several different meanings in current English -- especially where this translator has chosen a different route than King James' guys did. For members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, like me, there is extra value in the notes that refer to how the same topic is treated in other books of scripture, and in the notes that refer to the Joseph Smith translation of the New Testament, which is not a translation at all in the same sense that this one is. Very Highly Recommended.