William Tyndale and the Power of a Forbidden Book
In 1535, William Tyndale sat in a cold Belgian prison cell, awaiting execution for a single crime: translating the Bible into English. Church authorities had...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Romans 1:16.
In 1535, William Tyndale sat in a cold Belgian prison cell, awaiting execution for a single crime: translating the Bible into English. Church authorities had burned his books in public bonfires. King Henry VIII's agents had hunted him across Europe for nearly a decade. Friends urged him to stop, to recant, to save his own life. Tyndale refused. He had seen plowboys and merchants weep when they first heard Scripture in their own tongue.…
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