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The Forbidden Bible That Sparked a Religious Revolution

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Historic Mysteries
Jul 16, 2026
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John Wycliffe reads his Bible to John of Gaunt, father of King Henry IV (it’s complicated). Source: Ford Madox Brown / Public Domain.

Over the centuries the Bible has gone through various iterations and been translated into many different languages. The problem has always been that the writers and translators of these adaptations have tended to add their views to the Bible.

This has led to some major controversies. Perhaps most controversial of all was the Wycliffe Bible, the first attempt to produce an English-language Bible. Its production made its creator, John Wycliffe a pariah in the Catholic Church. What was the Wycliffe Bible and why were its contents so contentious?

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