The Great Cloud of Witnesses · Gallery
The Reformers
The men who put the Bible back into the people's hands and the church back under it. 8 witnesses hang on this wall, era by era down the line.
The Reformation1500–1600
Put the Bible into English a century and a half early; they burned his bones, and the river carried the ashes to the sea.
Preached Christ as head of the church in Prague's own language, and sang at the stake in 1415.
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Nailed 95 theses to a church door and would not take a single one of them back.
Translated the New Testament from the Greek so a plough-boy could read it, and paid for it at a stake in 1536.
Wrote the Institutes at twenty-six and spent the rest of his life teaching one city the whole counsel of God.
Collected the last words of England's burned believers so that nobody would be allowed to forget them.
Threw out the reading schedule and preached straight through Matthew, verse by verse, until Zurich changed.
Printed the Greek New Testament that Luther and Tyndale both translated from.
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