January 16, 1604 - John Rainolds asks King James to Create KJV Bible

One of the giants of Puritanism was John Rainolds (sometimes spelled as Reynolds), the president of the Corpus Christi College at Oxford. On January 16, 1604, he asked King James to construct a new Bible “that there might bee a newe translation of the Bible, as consonant as can be to the original Hebrew and Greek.” King James agreed to do just that the next day, and he then spent seven years creating what we now know as the King James Bible. Pictured is the choir chancel in the Corpus Christi College chapel where Rainolds is buried.