For example, during the Middle Ages in certain “Christian ” lands,“ the possession and reading of the Bible in the vernacular [the language of the common people] was increasingly associated with heresy and dissent, ” says the book An Introduction to the Medieval Bible.
આખેઆખું બાઇબલ અથવા એના અમુક ભાગોની આશરે ૫ અબજ પ્રતો ૨,૮૦૦થી વધુ ભાષામાં છપાઈ છે.