Once again Mr. Wright shows himself at his best when he puts a New Testament book into its original context. In this much shorter examination of the apostle Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, Mr. Wright plays to his strengths by bringing to the forefront the first-century Jewish and Gentile cultures in which this letter was originally written in as well as some of the backstory too. A close reading of 2 Corinthians reveals that Paul had had a stressful time during his last visit to Corinth, which happened after the writing of 1 Corinthians and before the persecutions he faced in Ephesus as described in Acts 19. Some of his sadness and anxiety from this time comes out in 2 Corinthians and it is Mr. Wright's great gift to bring that out along with the controversies that were still swirling around the Corinthian church, although 2 Corinthians makes clear that they had made some progress. As per usual, Mr. Wright uses his own stories and analogies to highlight his particular points and they are hit-and-miss. However, the brevity of this work, at about 150 pages in its main narrative, makes this one of the easiest commentaries to pick up. I highly recommend this along with Mr. Wright's commentary on 1 Corinthians to anyone who is interested in going deeper into these two fascinating letters.