John Rogers
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Oct 11, 2026
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
In the number of whom was Lord Thomas Grey, brother to the said Duke, being apprehended not long after in North Wales, and executed for the same.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, John Rogers, Vicar of St. Sepulchres, and Reader of St. Paul's, London.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
John Rogers was educated at Cambridge, and was afterward many years chaplain to the merchant adventurers at Antwerp in Brabant.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
Here he met with the celebrated martyr William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale, both voluntary exiles from their country for their aversion to Popish superstition and idolatry.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
They were the instruments of his conversion, and he united with them in that translation of the Bible into English, entitled The Translation of Thomas Matthew.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
It is conjectured also that during this same imprisonment he finished a translation of the books of the Old Testament from Joshua to 2 Chronicles inclusive.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
There is good reason also for thinking that this part of his work reappeared in Matthew's Bible of 1537, and it has been said that Matthew is a pseudonym and perhaps stands for John Rogers, Tyndale's friend.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
So far as the original text was concerned, he was limited to the Greek New Testament of 1516.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
The manuscripts Erasmus used for that, five in number, are still at Basel, and not one of them is ancient, the most valuable of the five being one written in the 10th century.
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Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
The title page sets forth that it was truly and purely translated into English by Thomas Matthew.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
And at the foot of that page it was said to be set forth with the king's most gracious license.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
It seems to be generally agreed that the name of Matthew was assumed by John Rogers, an intimate friend of Tyndale, an earnest Protestant, and one of the martyrs of Mary's time.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
The version bearing this name is of a composite character and comprised a reprint of Tyndale's New Testament and his Pentateuch.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
Um, no one called Matthew connected to it.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
This is John Rogers' work, and Rogers had been chaplain at the English house in Antwerp-
Tony WatkinsHOST
Right
Harry SpillaneGUEST
...where Tyndale was in hiding.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
Which being done, he craved of Bonair but one petition, and Bonair asked him what that should be.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
Mr. Rogers replied that he might speak a few words with his wife before burning, but that could not be attained of him.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
When the time came that he should be brought out of Newgate to Smithfield, the place of his execution, Mr. Woodruff, one of the sheriffs, first came to Mr. Rogers and asked him if he would revoke his abominable doctrine and the evil opinion of the sacrament of the altar.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
Mr. Rogers answered, That which I have preached I will seal with my blood.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
Then Mr. Woodruff said, Thou art a heretic.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
That shall be known, quoth Mr. Rogers, at the day of judgment.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
Well, said Mr. Woodruff.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
I will never pray for thee.
Joshua AllenGUEST
And so Coverdale kind of tried to fill in the holes.
Joshua AllenGUEST
And then John Rogers came after him with the Matthews Bible.
Joshua AllenGUEST
The Bishop's Bible, obviously.
Joshua AllenGUEST
The Great Bible.
21 MINS LATER
Joshua AllenGUEST
Like I said before, a lot of it was just reworking Tyndale's work.
Joshua AllenGUEST
Almost nobody was willing to take it on.
Joshua AllenGUEST
John Rogers did it under a pseudonym.
Joshua AllenGUEST
of Thomas Matthews.
Kate TaylorHOST
Hey, y'all, and welcome to season five, episode three, The Burning Time.
Kate TaylorHOST
On February 4th, 1555, A Protestant clergyman at St. Paul's Cathedral named John Rogers was taken to Smithfield, condemned as a heretic, and tied to a stake.
Kate TaylorHOST
Before the pyre was lit, he was offered a pardon if he recanted his religious views.
Kate TaylorHOST
Rogers refused.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
It was published right before Tyndale's death.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
And then in 1537, the following year, the Matthew Bible, published by John Rogers, was published in England, officially recognized by the crown.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
The New Testament, essentially Tyndale's.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
And then, of course, in 1539, the Great Bible, a conglomeration of English translations, but still Tyndale's New Testament, becomes not only an approved publication in England, Henry VIII, who had once been so opposed to the work of Tyndale, required that every parish had one of these Bibles.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
In the number of whom was Lord Thomas Grey, brother to the said Duke, being apprehended not long after in North Wales, and executed for the same.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, John Rogers, Vicar of St. Sepulchres, and Reader of St. Paul's, London.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
John Rogers was educated at Cambridge, and was afterward many years chaplain to the merchant adventurers at Antwerp in Brabant.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
Here he met with the celebrated martyr William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale, both voluntary exiles from their country for their aversion to Popish superstition and idolatry.
Derek WoodleyNARRATOR
They were the instruments of his conversion, and he united with them in that translation of the Bible into English, entitled The Translation of Thomas Matthew.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
And yet Tyndale is often forgotten, often overlooked.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
That's because the scholars who came after him, like Miles Coverdale or the translator or editor of another early English Bible, John Rogers, they have to remove Tyndale's name in order to get Henry VIII to agree with and passing or giving permission to these Bibles.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
They're not trying to steal Tyndale's glory there, but they know that his name is not one that the King of England wants to hear.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
And that means Tyndale just starts to get written out a bit.
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