In honor of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, Glen Scrivener is blogging many of its most famous phrases. He notes how many came from William Tyndale, who was later "condemned as a heretic, degraded from the priesthood, strangled and then his body burnt":
Computer analysis has revealed that more than three quarters of the King James Version can be traced directly to Tyndale (83% of the NT and 76% of the OT). … The King James Version is sometimes called ‘the greatest book written by committee.’ And I suppose there is something to celebrate about that. Yet, for the most part, those 47 scholars, working in peace and prosperity, could not improve on the work of a young evangelical who gave his liberty and his life for the gospel.
The Dish 