THE BIBLE

A brief history of the Bible:

Around 500 BC: 39 books that make up the Old Testament were completed and preserved in Hebrew on scrolls, it also was and is the Jewish sacred text.
First Century AD: The New Testament was completed and preserved in Greek on papyrus.
500 AD: The Bible had been translated into over 500 languages.
600 AD: The Bible was restricted to only Latin. All other versions were considered illegal.
1380: John Wycliffe translated the Bible into English.
1415: John Hus was burned at the stake because he stood up for the Bible. Wycliffe’s Bibles were used to start the fire.
1526: William Tyndale printed the first English Bible.
1536: Tyndale was incarcerated before he was strangled and burned at the stake. Before dying, Tyndale prayed, “Oh Lord, open the King of England’s eyes.”

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