Humphrey Monmouth

So Tyndale asks, he's rejected, and he may have well put his name on a list of people to watch.

And so another friend, a cloth merchant named Humphrey Monmouth, decides to help Tyndale out.

and decides to get him over to the wild, woolly European lands where printers were growing quickly in overlapping jurisdictions could buy you some time if you got into a pinch.

So around 1523, 1524, he may have been at Wittenberg.

And we stand in awe of what Tyndale did.

But do you realize behind Tyndale, there was a man named Humphrey Monmouth.

And Humphrey Monmouth, maybe you don't know his name, the Bible's not associated with him, but we wouldn't have a Tyndale Bible without a Humphrey Monmouth.

And Humphrey Monmouth caught a hold of this vision that Tyndale had to translate the Bible.

His purpose and his mission was simple.

He said that the plow boy should be able to read God's word and that we should have God's word accessible in common language.

One of my favorite unknown stories from Christian history is the story of a guy that you probably never heard his name, but your life is radically different because of this man and because of what he did.

His name is Humphrey Monmouth.

All right? You're like, "Tough name." Yes, indeed.

Tough name.

Humphrey Monmouth, you never heard of him, but you might have heard of a guy that was connected to him named William Tyndale.

William Tyndale lived around 1530 or so, and William Tyndale was a priest who started to read the Bible on his own in Latin, and he basically became a Christian.

He realized that, um, well, nobody in England could read the Bible because the Bible wasn't in English.

William Tyndale said, "That's wrong.