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William Tyndale was born around the year 1494 and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford University in 1512 and his Master of Arts in 1515. He further honed his linguistic abilities through studies at Cambridge between 1517 and 1521.
William Tyndale promised a blasphemous clergyman that if God spared his life, he would ensure that the boy who drove the plow knew more of the Scriptures than the priest did. This declaration occurred during a heated argument at a dinner party in Little Sodbury before he left England in 1523.
William Tyndale was executed in the castle of Vilvoorde near Brussels after being betrayed by Henry Phillips in 1535. He was strangled to death and his body was burned, with the traditional date of commemoration set as the 6th of October 1536.
One estimate suggests that the New Testament in the King James Version is 83% William Tyndale's words and the first half of the Old Testament is 76%. His translation served as the foundation for the Great Bible of 1539, the Geneva Bible of 1560, and the King James Version of 1611.
William Tyndale left England in 1523 because his controversial views on the authority of the Church led to a summons before Bishop John Bell of Worcester. He sought sponsorship for his translation work from Cuthbert Tunstall, the Bishop of London, who declined to fund him.