To think Jesus teaching started around 30 AD and lasted only
three years, then the Apostles went around spreading the Good News and wrote letters to the church and instructed them to share the letters with churches.
It wasn't until 1525 when William Tyndales translated the Bible into a form we see and use today based on the Latin vulgate, Erasmus Greek and the original Greek manuscripts. Today we have found many more manuscripts which haven't dis-proven the Bible as being wrong.
Historical Background: Reformation A revolution in western thinking followed the midpoint of the 15th century A.D. The Renaissance opened up the treasures of both classical and patristic learning in a new way. It also revived an interest in the study of both Greek and Hebrew that made possible the study of the Bible in the original languages. This new interest in original editions stimulated textual research and also evidenced anew the corruption and ignorance of the contemporary church. The Renaissance created new opportunities for humanist scholars such as Erasmus of Rotterdam, who sought to make the Bible available to people of all ages, social levels, and countries. More radical in outlook than Renaissance humanists were the Reformers, who measured the teaching and practice of the contemporary church by the standards of scripture. The Reformers were horrified by the obvious discrepancies. There soon emerged a mission to discover the pure biblical message and to reconstruct both the teaching and practice of the church. The Reformers became deeply convinced that it was both reasonable and necessary to circulate Gods word in order to purify the church from ignorance and destructive practices. (from Welcome to Davidson Press)
1525 William Tyndales New Testament is completed. His translation is based on the Latin vulgate, Erasmus Greek and the original Greek manuscripts. His wording and sentence structures are found in most modern day translations of the Bible. Tyndale was committed to taking the Bible directly to the people. Expressing open defiance of the Pope, Tyndale said that if God would spare his life he would make it possible for even a ploughboy to know more about Holy Scripture than the Pope himself. By August of 1525 his translation of the New Testament was complete. Printing began at Cologne, but when the authorities forbade the project, Tyndale escaped to Worms, where 6,000 copies were printed and sold in England by April of 1526. Official opposition in England led to the destruction of most of these early copies. -
The History of the Bible up to the modern Revised Version of the King James Bible
