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.

The Douay-Rheims Audio Bible

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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The same was in the beginning with God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In him was life, and the life was the light of men.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the light, that all men might believe through him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He was not the light, but was to give testimony of the light.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He came unto his own, and his own received him not.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">John beareth witness of him, and crieth out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me, is preferred before me: because he was before me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And of his fulness we all have received, and grace for grace.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And he confessed, and did not deny: and he confessed: I am not the Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered: No.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He said: I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.1.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And they that were sent, were of the Pharisees.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.1.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.1.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">John answered them, saying: I baptize with water; but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.1.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.1.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.1.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him, and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.1.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">This is he, of whom I said: After me there cometh a man, who is preferred before me: because he was before me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.1.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">And I knew him not, but that he may be made manifest in Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.1.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.1.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">And John gave testimony, saying: I saw the Spirit coming down, as a dove from heaven, and he remained upon him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.1.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.1.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">And I knew him not; but he who sent me to baptize with water, said to me: He upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon him, he it is that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.1.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.1.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">And I saw, and I gave testimony, that this is the Son of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.1.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.1.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The next day again John stood, and two of his disciples.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.1.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.1.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">And beholding Jesus walking, he saith: Behold the Lamb of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.1.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.1.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.1.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.1.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">And Jesus turning, and seeing them following him, saith to them: What seek you? Who said to him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.1.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.1.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">He saith to them: Come and see. They came, and saw where he abode, and they stayed with him that day: now it was about the tenth hour.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.1.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.1.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">And Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who had heard of John, and followed him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.1.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.1.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">He findeth first his brother Simon, and saith to him: We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.1.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.1.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus looking upon him, said: Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted Peter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.1.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JHN.1.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">On the following day, he would go forth into Galilee, and he findeth Philip. And Jesus saith to him: Follow me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JHN.1.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JHN.1.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JHN.1.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JHN.1.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him: We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JHN.1.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JHN.1.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come from Nazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JHN.1.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JHN.1.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him: and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JHN.1.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JHN.1.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Nathanael saith to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered, and said to him: Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JHN.1.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JHN.1.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">Nathanael answered him, and said: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JHN.1.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JHN.1.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, and said to him: Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, thou believest: greater things than these shalt thou see.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JHN.1.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="JHN.1.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">And he saith to him: Amen, amen I say to you, you shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.</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.

IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the light, that all men might believe through him.
He was not the light, but was to give testimony of the light.
That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name.
Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John beareth witness of him, and crieth out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me, is preferred before me: because he was before me.
And of his fulness we all have received, and grace for grace.
For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?
And he confessed, and did not deny: and he confessed: I am not the Christ.
And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered: No.
They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?
He said: I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.
And they that were sent, were of the Pharisees.
And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?
John answered them, saying: I baptize with water; but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.
The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.
These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him, and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.
This is he, of whom I said: After me there cometh a man, who is preferred before me: because he was before me.
And I knew him not, but that he may be made manifest in Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
And John gave testimony, saying: I saw the Spirit coming down, as a dove from heaven, and he remained upon him.
And I knew him not; but he who sent me to baptize with water, said to me: He upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon him, he it is that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
And I saw, and I gave testimony, that this is the Son of God.
The next day again John stood, and two of his disciples.
And beholding Jesus walking, he saith: Behold the Lamb of God.
And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
And Jesus turning, and seeing them following him, saith to them: What seek you? Who said to him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
He saith to them: Come and see. They came, and saw where he abode, and they stayed with him that day: now it was about the tenth hour.
And Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who had heard of John, and followed him.
He findeth first his brother Simon, and saith to him: We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus looking upon him, said: Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted Peter.
On the following day, he would go forth into Galilee, and he findeth Philip. And Jesus saith to him: Follow me.
Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him: We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth.
And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come from Nazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him: and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.
Nathanael saith to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered, and said to him: Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
Nathanael answered him, and said: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel.
Jesus answered, and said to him: Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, thou believest: greater things than these shalt thou see.
And he saith to him: Amen, amen I say to you, you shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

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