The Douay-Rheims Audio Bible is a reading of The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version, with Challoner Revisions. Translated from the Latin Vulgate, the Douay-Rheims was the first English translation of the Bible, predating even the King James Version. The New Testament was published in 1582. Narrated by Steve Webb.

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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">BEFORE the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And when supper was done, (the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and goeth to God;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He riseth from supper, and layeth aside his garments, and having taken a towel, girded himself.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.13.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">After that, he putteth water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He cometh therefore to Simon Peter. And Peter saith to him: Lord, dost thou wash my feet?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.13.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, and said to him: What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Peter saith to him: Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him: If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Jesus saith to him: He that is washed, needeth not but to wash his feet, but is clean wholly. And you are clean, but not all.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For he knew who he was that would betray him; therefore he said: You are not all clean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then after he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, being set down again, he said to them: Know you what I have done to you?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.13.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You call me Master, and Lord; and you say well, for so I am.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If then I being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another's feet.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so you do also.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Amen, amen I say to you: The servant is not greater than his lord; neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen. But that the scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth bread with me, shall lift up his heel against me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.13.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">At present I tell you, before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass, you may believe that I am he.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.13.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Amen, amen I say to you, he that receiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.13.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When Jesus had said these things, he was troubled in spirit; and he testified, and said: Amen, amen I say to you, one of you shall betray me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The disciples therefore looked one upon another, doubting of whom he spoke.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him: Who is it of whom he speaketh?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He therefore, leaning on the breast of Jesus, saith to him: Lord, who is it?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Jesus answered: He it is to whom I shall reach bread dipped. And when he had dipped the bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.13.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And after the morsel, Satan entered into him. And Jesus said to him: That which thou dost, do quickly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.13.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Now no man at the table knew to what purpose he said this unto him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.13.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">For some thought, because Judas had the purse, that Jesus had said to him: Buy those things which we have need of for the festival day: or that he should give something to the poor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.13.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He therefore having received the morsel, went out immediately. And it was night.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.13.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">When he therefore was gone out, Jesus said: Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.13.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">If God be glorified in him, God also will glorify him in himself; and immediately will he glorify him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.13.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek me; and as I said to the Jews: Whither I go you cannot come; so I say to you now.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.13.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.13.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.13.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.13.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.13.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered: Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow hereafter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.13.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.13.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Peter saith to him: Why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.13.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.13.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Jesus answered him: Wilt thou lay down thy life for me? Amen, amen I say to thee, the cock shall not crow, till thou deny me thrice.</span></span></div>
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An historical text. In 1955 the Douay-Rheims Challoner Bible received the Imprimatur ✠ of the English Catholic Church from the Archbishop of Westminster.

BEFORE the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
And when supper was done, (the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,)
Knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and goeth to God;
He riseth from supper, and layeth aside his garments, and having taken a towel, girded himself.
After that, he putteth water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
He cometh therefore to Simon Peter. And Peter saith to him: Lord, dost thou wash my feet?
Jesus answered, and said to him: What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
Peter saith to him: Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him: If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me.
Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.
Jesus saith to him: He that is washed, needeth not but to wash his feet, but is clean wholly. And you are clean, but not all.
For he knew who he was that would betray him; therefore he said: You are not all clean.
Then after he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, being set down again, he said to them: Know you what I have done to you?
You call me Master, and Lord; and you say well, for so I am.
If then I being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another's feet.
For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so you do also.
Amen, amen I say to you: The servant is not greater than his lord; neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him.
If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them.
I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen. But that the scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth bread with me, shall lift up his heel against me.
At present I tell you, before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass, you may believe that I am he.
Amen, amen I say to you, he that receiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.
When Jesus had said these things, he was troubled in spirit; and he testified, and said: Amen, amen I say to you, one of you shall betray me.
The disciples therefore looked one upon another, doubting of whom he spoke.
Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him: Who is it of whom he speaketh?
He therefore, leaning on the breast of Jesus, saith to him: Lord, who is it?
Jesus answered: He it is to whom I shall reach bread dipped. And when he had dipped the bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
And after the morsel, Satan entered into him. And Jesus said to him: That which thou dost, do quickly.
Now no man at the table knew to what purpose he said this unto him.
For some thought, because Judas had the purse, that Jesus had said to him: Buy those things which we have need of for the festival day: or that he should give something to the poor.
He therefore having received the morsel, went out immediately. And it was night.
When he therefore was gone out, Jesus said: Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
If God be glorified in him, God also will glorify him in himself; and immediately will he glorify him.
Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek me; and as I said to the Jews: Whither I go you cannot come; so I say to you now.
A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.
Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered: Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow hereafter.
Peter saith to him: Why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee.
Jesus answered him: Wilt thou lay down thy life for me? Amen, amen I say to thee, the cock shall not crow, till thou deny me thrice.

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