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">5</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">AFTER these things was a festival day of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered; waiting for the moving of the water.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And an angel of the Lord descended at certain times into the pond; and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond after the motion of the water, was made whole, of whatsoever infirmity he lay under.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And there was a certain man there, that had been eight and thirty years under his infirmity.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew that he had been now a long time, he saith to him: Wilt thou be made whole?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pond. For whilst I am coming, another goeth down before me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And immediately the man was made whole: and he took up his bed, and walked. And it was the sabbath that day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The Jews therefore said to him that was healed: It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He answered them: He that made me whole, he said to me, Take up thy bed, and walk.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They asked him therefore: Who is that man who said to thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But he who was healed, knew not who it was; for Jesus went aside from the multitude standing in the place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Afterwards, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and saith to him: Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest some worse thing happen to thee.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The man went his way, and told the Jews, that it was Jesus who had made him whole.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Whereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he did not only break the sabbath, but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then Jesus answered, and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things which himself doth: and greater works than these will he shew him, that you may wonder.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For neither doth the Father judge any man, but hath given all judgment to the Son.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.5.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">That all men may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He who honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father, who hath sent him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.5.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Amen, amen I say unto you, that he who heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath life everlasting; and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death to life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Amen, amen I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.5.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given the Son also to have life in himself:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.5.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And he hath given him power to do judgment, because he is the Son of man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.5.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.5.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Wonder not at this; for the hour cometh, wherein all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.5.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.5.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">And they that have done good things, shall come forth unto the resurrection of life; but they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.5.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.5.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear, so I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.5.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.5.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.5.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.5.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.5.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.5.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">You sent to John, and he gave testimony to the truth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.5.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.5.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">But I receive not testimony from man: but I say these things, that you may be saved.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.5.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.5.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.5.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.5.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">But I have a greater testimony than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to perfect; the works themselves, which I do, give testimony of me, that the Father hath sent me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.5.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.5.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">And the Father himself who hath sent me, hath given testimony of me: neither have you heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.5.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.5.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him you believe not.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.5.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.5.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Search the scriptures, for you think in them to have life everlasting; and the same are they that give testimony of me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.5.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.5.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">And you will not come to me that you may have life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.5.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.5.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">I receive glory not from men.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.5.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.5.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.5.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JHN.5.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JHN.5.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JHN.5.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">How can you believe, who receive glory one from another: and the glory which is from God alone, you do not seek?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JHN.5.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JHN.5.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that accuseth you, Moses, in whom you trust.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JHN.5.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JHN.5.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">For if you did believe Moses, you would perhaps believe me also; for he wrote of me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JHN.5.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JHN.5.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?</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.

AFTER these things was a festival day of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches.
In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered; waiting for the moving of the water.
And an angel of the Lord descended at certain times into the pond; and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond after the motion of the water, was made whole, of whatsoever infirmity he lay under.
And there was a certain man there, that had been eight and thirty years under his infirmity.
Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew that he had been now a long time, he saith to him: Wilt thou be made whole?
The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pond. For whilst I am coming, another goeth down before me.
Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
And immediately the man was made whole: and he took up his bed, and walked. And it was the sabbath that day.
The Jews therefore said to him that was healed: It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.
He answered them: He that made me whole, he said to me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
They asked him therefore: Who is that man who said to thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
But he who was healed, knew not who it was; for Jesus went aside from the multitude standing in the place.
Afterwards, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and saith to him: Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest some worse thing happen to thee.
The man went his way, and told the Jews, that it was Jesus who had made him whole.
Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.
But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.
Whereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he did not only break the sabbath, but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God.
Then Jesus answered, and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner.
For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things which himself doth: and greater works than these will he shew him, that you may wonder.
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will.
For neither doth the Father judge any man, but hath given all judgment to the Son.
That all men may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He who honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father, who hath sent him.
Amen, amen I say unto you, that he who heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath life everlasting; and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death to life.
Amen, amen I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.
For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given the Son also to have life in himself:
And he hath given him power to do judgment, because he is the Son of man.
Wonder not at this; for the hour cometh, wherein all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God.
And they that have done good things, shall come forth unto the resurrection of life; but they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment.
I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear, so I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
You sent to John, and he gave testimony to the truth.
But I receive not testimony from man: but I say these things, that you may be saved.
He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.
But I have a greater testimony than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to perfect; the works themselves, which I do, give testimony of me, that the Father hath sent me.
And the Father himself who hath sent me, hath given testimony of me: neither have you heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him you believe not.
Search the scriptures, for you think in them to have life everlasting; and the same are they that give testimony of me.
And you will not come to me that you may have life.
I receive glory not from men.
But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.
I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.
How can you believe, who receive glory one from another: and the glory which is from God alone, you do not seek?
Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that accuseth you, Moses, in whom you trust.
For if you did believe Moses, you would perhaps believe me also; for he wrote of me.
But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?

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