[a contender]

Wycliffe translation? The KJV translators used the Texus Receptus, do you mean Tydales translation? He was burned at the stake by the Catholic church for putting the scriptures into the hands of the "commoner" and while he was burning he cried with his last voice "God open up the eyes of the King of England", that was around 1590. The very next King was "King James" and his first order was to translate the scriptures for the English speaking people. The Holy Bible was completed in 1611. Wycliffes transaltion was not the authority of the Authorized Version. The received text was used, the Texus Receptus.

[Burma Jones]

Actually, Tyndale was burned around 1536, in the reign of Henry VIII. Ironically, Henry authorized an English translation just a few years later; the Great Bible, as it was called, rolled off the presses in 1539-40. The King James Bible, which came out in 1611, owed much to the Great Bible, and to its successor, the "Bishops' Bible" of the late 1560s. And there were a few monarchs between Henry and James, though only one king. Henry was succeeded by his young son Edward in 1547, who was succeeded by his half-sister Mary in 1553, who was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth in 1558, who reigned until 1603.

[FormerLib]

"Born in the 1300s, Wycliffe criticized abuses and false teachings in the Church. In 1382 he translated an English Bible--the first European translation done in over 1,000 years. The Lollards, itinerant preachers he sent throughout England, inspired a spiritual revolution."

[RaceBannon]

The Great Bible came before the King James, so did the Geneva Bible, and both came after Tyndale

[BibChr]

The KJV translators used the Texus Receptus....

A popular misconception. Actually, the edition of Stephanus' Greek Text with this publisher's blurb attached (with no church or other authority whatever) was published after the KJV. Little-known, but true.

Dan
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[RobbyS]

He was burned at the stake by the Catholic church for putting the scriptures into the hands of the "commoner" and while he was burning he cried with his last voice "God open up the eyes of the King of England", that was around 1590 haven't reaf all the replies, but he was executed during thr reign of Henry VIII, more than 60 years befoe this.