John Rogers (1500-1555)

by: KGH, 2008

John Rogers was born in the town of Aston. He grew up to be a minister, Bible translator, and commentator. He was educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge University, where he graduated with a B.A. in 1526. Six years later, he was Rector of Holy Trinity Church in London, and in 1534, we went to Antwerp as chaplain to a company of English merchants. There he met William Tyndale. John Rogers used the name "Thomas Matthew" to protect himself when he published his translation of the Bible. But he was captured anyway and burned at Smithfield by Queen Mary I in 1555.

Miles Coverdale (1488-1568)

by: KGH, 2008

Miles Coverdale and John "Thomas Matthew" Rogers were loyal partners for the last six years of William Tyndale's life as they carried the English Bible project forward. Coverdale finished translating the Old Testament in 1535. He printed the first complete Bible in the English language. Coverdale had studied at Cambridge, receiving a bachelor's degree in Canon Law in 1531. Coverdale and many other men have helped Christians very much. Many people take advantage of that. We would not have been able to get closer to God or go to Heaven if it weren't for the Bible being translated into English.