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">3</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">AND there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that thou art come a teacher from God; for no man can do these signs which thou dost, unless God be with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, and said to him: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Nicodemus saith to him: How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born again?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Jesus answered: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Wonder not, that I said to thee, you must be born again.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Spirit breatheth where he will; and thou hearest his voice, but thou knowest not whence he cometh, and whither he goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Nicodemus answered, and said to him: How can these things be done?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, and said to him: Art thou a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Amen, amen I say to thee, that we speak what we know, and we testify what we have seen, and you receive not our testimony.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not; how will you believe, if I shall speak to you heavenly things?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">That whosoever believeth in him, may not perish; but may have life everlasting.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe, is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And this is the judgment: because the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For every one that doth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But he that doth truth, cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, because they are done in God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After these things Jesus and his disciples came into the land of Judea: and there he abode with them, and baptized.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And John also was baptizing in Ennon near Salim; because there was much water there; and they came and were baptized.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For John was not yet cast into prison.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews concerning purification:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And they came to John, and said to him: Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou gavest testimony, behold he baptizeth, and all men come to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.3.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.3.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">John answered, and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.3.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.3.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">You yourselves do bear me witness, that I said, I am not Christ, but that I am sent before him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.3.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.3.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.3.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.3.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He must increase, but I must decrease.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.3.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.3.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">He that cometh from above, is above all. He that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh. He that cometh from heaven, is above all.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.3.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.3.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth: and no man receiveth his testimony.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.3.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.3.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He that hath received his testimony, hath set to his seal that God is true.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.3.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.3.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God: for God doth not give the Spirit by measure.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.3.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.3.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The Father loveth the Son: and he hath given all things into his hand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.3.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.3.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">He that believeth in the Son, hath life everlasting; but he that believeth not the Son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.</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.

AND there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that thou art come a teacher from God; for no man can do these signs which thou dost, unless God be with him.
Jesus answered, and said to him: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith to him: How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born again?
Jesus answered: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.
Wonder not, that I said to thee, you must be born again.
The Spirit breatheth where he will; and thou hearest his voice, but thou knowest not whence he cometh, and whither he goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Nicodemus answered, and said to him: How can these things be done?
Jesus answered, and said to him: Art thou a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?
Amen, amen I say to thee, that we speak what we know, and we testify what we have seen, and you receive not our testimony.
If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not; how will you believe, if I shall speak to you heavenly things?
And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up:
That whosoever believeth in him, may not perish; but may have life everlasting.
For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting.
For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him.
He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe, is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
And this is the judgment: because the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.
For every one that doth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.
But he that doth truth, cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, because they are done in God.
After these things Jesus and his disciples came into the land of Judea: and there he abode with them, and baptized.
And John also was baptizing in Ennon near Salim; because there was much water there; and they came and were baptized.
For John was not yet cast into prison.
And there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews concerning purification:
And they came to John, and said to him: Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou gavest testimony, behold he baptizeth, and all men come to him.
John answered, and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven.
You yourselves do bear me witness, that I said, I am not Christ, but that I am sent before him.
He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled.
He must increase, but I must decrease.
He that cometh from above, is above all. He that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh. He that cometh from heaven, is above all.
And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth: and no man receiveth his testimony.
He that hath received his testimony, hath set to his seal that God is true.
For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God: for God doth not give the Spirit by measure.
The Father loveth the Son: and he hath given all things into his hand.
He that believeth in the Son, hath life everlasting; but he that believeth not the Son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

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