The German Common man, or commoner, was whom the BIBLE was written for. Martin Luther protested the Catholic teachings, and the fact that the Holy Scriptures were only made available to the priests. In other words, THEY told the common man what was and what wasn’t in the Holy Scriptures, without the common man even getting the chance to read it for himself. Then, when you didn’t worship as they do, they would kill you for it. (Inquisitions). Martin Luther felt that this was unfair and protested it. He then sought to translate the Holy Scriptures for the (then) common man to be able to read.

This resulted in the BIBLE, which is a translation of the Holy Scriptures. Martin Luther translated the Holy Scriptures into German. Since then, and many deaths later, King James translated the Holy Scriptures into English, or rather Old English. It is what we now know as the King James Version of the BIBLE.

The only role that I see in the entire event of the German Commoners is actually FOR Martin Luther. If the prosecution called on them at all, it would have been to ask them if they can now read the scriptures. I guess it really would depend upon what the prosecution really wanted to get him for. He really committed no crime. He just wanted things to be fair.

But back in that day, it was probably considered treason, or they were trying to say that he was a heretic or blasphemer.

The Germans couldn’t really help the prosecution with those claims.

Incedently, Martin Luther is why there are protestant christians today. Protestants are protesters against something. This is why there are now Catholic Christians and Protestant Christians. The first Protestant Church was the Lutherans, named after Martin Luther.