I've been studying the early period of the Reformation today ....it is heartbreaking to read of so many men and women put to death simply because they wanted to preach and teach the bible in their native languages .... One such man was John Huss of Prague , who was burnt to death after he wouldn't recant of his so called heresy in 1415 ..
An ordinary man who had a strong conviction that the common man should have access to God's word ..and like many others of that period he paid for this conviction with his life .
Nowadays we take the English bible for granted .... go back 500 years and that certainly wasn't the case . ....