John Foxe informs us that one day an exasperated Catholic scholar at dinner with Tyndale said, “We were better to be without God’s law than the Pope’s.”

Tyndale responded with these famous words, “I defy the Pope and all his laws. . . . If God spare my life ere many years, I will cause a boy that driveth the plow, shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost.”

In this youtube video teaching, Dr. Steve Lawson provides a broad overview of the life of William Tyndale, whom God used mightily to bring about Reformation to the entire English speaking world: