It Will Come to Pass
Picture a cold, dimly lit prison cell in 1536. A man, gaunt from months of confinement, wraps himself in a thin cloak. His name is William Tyndale, and he’s about to pay the ultimate price for one unshakable belief: that the Bible is God’s perfect, error-free Word and that everyone, even the common ploughboy, should be able to read it. Tyndale had dared to do what was illegal in England at the time: translate the Bible into English. The Church feared that if ordinary people read the Scriptures for themselves, it would undermine their control. But Tyndale believed the exact opposite. He once said to a clergyman, “If God spares my life, I will cause a boy that drives the plough to know more of the Scripture than you do.” He was convinced not only that the Bible should be accessible, but that it could be trusted down to the smallest word. That it was free from error because it was God’s Word, not man’s invention. Tyndale wasn’t just translati...