So That the People Understood

What do a crowd at Jerusalem's Water Gate, an Englishman shivering in a prison cell near Brussels, and the apostle Paul in chains have in common? In this teaching we open Nehemiah 8 and 2 Timothy 2 to see that God gave His Word to be understood, and we trace what it cost to put the Bible into the language of ordinary people, from John Wycliffe's burned bones to William Tyndale's plowboy vow. You'll hear Tyndale's only surviving letter, written from his cell, asking for a warmer coat, a lamp, and "above all" his Hebrew Bible, set beside Paul's own request for his cloak and his parchments. Come hear why the people of Nehemiah's day went home rejoicing "because they had understood," and why that same joy is waiting for you every time you open your Bible.