Murray Harris has served as a professor of New Testament exegesis and theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and as Warden of Tyndale House in Cambridge, England. He presently resides in New Zealand.

I describe him more (and relay a funny story about him) in this post, which highlights his book Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament.

In his commentaries on (a) 2 Corinthians and (b) Colossians and Philemon, he not only translates the texts but includes an expanded paraphrase of them. B&H gave me permission to share his 6-page expanded paraphrase of Colossians:

Murray J. Harris, “Expanded Paraphrase,” Colossians and Philemon (2nd ed.; Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament*; Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2010), 193–98.

*An expanded paraphrase is not a distinctive feature of the other volumes in this series.

Harris’s expanded paraphrase is worth reading slowly. It’s based on an enormous amount of Greek exegesis.