Matthew Henry: Born in Persecution, Still Shaping Christianity

Matthew Henry was born two months after his father was expelled from the church. He wrote the most influential Bible commentary of all time and never finished it. In this investigative documentary, we reveal the full story of the nonconformist pastor who, born into the religious persecution of seventeenth-century England, produced eight million words of biblical exposition in a small garden study in Chester. From the Great Ejection of 1662 and the Act of Uniformity that silenced two thousand preachers, to the Glorious Revolution and the Toleration Act that opened a window of freedom, the life of Matthew Henry spans...