Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode we are on location we are in a great place.

We are at the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC.

And we are here to talk about the King James Bible. Now if you were to go

rooting through your grandma's attic and you were to come across what you thought

would be a first-printing King James Bible, how would you know?

Well all you need to do is go to Ruth chapter 3 verse 15 and see how it ends.

If that verse ends with he went into the city, you would know

that you had an authentic 1611 first printing Bible and by the way it would be worth a mint but if it said she well

that's not a 16 11 Bible now we'll get to that in a second what we have here in the Museum of the Bible is actually a visual and real

representation of the history of the English Bible. It begins with Tyndale in the 1520s and Tindale gave his life to bring the Bible into the language of the English people.

Now we know Wickcliffe, and Wickcliffe was a translation of the Latin into the English. What we're talking about is translation of the Latin into the English.

What we're talking about is translation of the original.

The Greek New Testament and the Hebrew Old Testament.

So we start with Tindale.

Then we come to 1535 and we have the Coverdale Bible named for Miles Coverdale and it was largely

the Tindale translation. In 1537 we have the Matthew Bible. It was also a

Tindale associate who produced this Bible. His name was John

Rogers, but he gave himself a pseudonym of Thomas Matthew, and so it's known as the Matthew

Bible. Then we come to 1539 and we have the Great Bible and it's the Great

Bible because of its size. It was meant to be a lectern Bible and it is quite a specimen in its size.

And then we come to the Bible of the Puritans, the Geneva Bible.

In the 1550s and 1560s, these were the Puritan Exiles in Calvin's Geneva, and Calvin believed

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