Well, welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode, we are once again on location and the Museum of the Bible.

They say that here at the Museum of the Bible, they have 72 hours worth of content within the walls of this museum, but we only have five minutes and so we don't have time to look at all the great treasures, but we're going to focus on one treasure.

We are on the fourth floor.

This floor tells the story of the Bible through artifacts,

and even starts before the Bible with just the history of writing cuneiform

tablets and then it gets to a very exciting part of the museum for me and that is the

part dealing with the reformation and I'm standing right next to a fascinating Bible. The plaque

card next to it identifies it as Luther's Pastors Bible. So first, let's talk about who is Luther's pastor? Luther's

pastor is Johannes Bugin. He was born in Poland on June 24th, 1485, and he died in the city of Vittenberg on April 20th, 1558.

As a student, he was not impressed with the reformers at all. In fact he first read

Luther in 1520 and when he first read Luther the arguments just did not convince him.

But then something happened as he read Luther a second time in 1523,

and he was reading the Babylonian captivity of the church.

And as he was reading that, he was convicted of the truth of the gospel and he was also convicted

that he was in the wrong church and he needed to get out of that church and go with Luther. So he made his way to

Vittenberg. He's a great scholar so he became one of the professors at the

University of Vittenberg and he also became one of the pastors at the parish church at St. Mary's.

Now Luther was also one of the pastors at St Mary's church.

He had two names for Bogan-Hagen. He called him Dr Pomeranius and Pomerania is the

area that we know today is Poland.

So Luther was calling him the Doctor of Poland.

The other title that Luther had for him was,

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