Douay Rheims Original ↷
John 1 📜 📕 ↷
Beginning
1 IN the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was with God, and God was the WORD.📜💬📚
2 This was in the beginning with God.📜💬📚
3 All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing. That which was made,📜💬📚
4 in him was life, and the life was the light of men:📜💬📚
5 and the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.📜💬📚
Witness of John
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.📜💬📚
7 This man came for testimony; to give testimony of the light, that all might believe through him.📜💬📚
8 He was not the light, but to give testimony of the light.📜💬📚
9 It was the true light, which lighteneth every man that cometh into this world.📜💬📚
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.📜💬📚
11 He came into his own, and his own received him not.📜💬📚
12 But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to those that believe in his name.📜💬📚
13 Who, not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God are born.📜💬📚
Word Became Flesh
14 AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, and dwelt in us (and we saw the glory of him, glory as it were of the Only-begotten of the Father) full of grace and verity.📜💬📚
15 John giveth testimony of him, and crieth saying: This was he of whom I spake, He that shall come after me, is made before me: because he was before me.📜💬📚
16 And of his fullness we all have received, and grace for grace.📜💬📚
17 For the law was given by Moyses, grace and verity was made by JESUS Christ.📜💬📚
18 God no man hath seen at any time: the only-begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared.📜💬📚
Mission of John the Baptist
19 And this is John's testimony, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem Priests and Levites to him, that they should ask him, who art thou?📜💬📚
20 And he confessed, and did not deny: and he confessed, That I am not CHRIST.📜💬📚
21 And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the Prophet? And he answered: No.📜💬📚
22 They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? what sayest thou of thy self?📜💬📚
23 He said: I am the voice of one crying in the desert, make straight the way of our Lord, as Esaie the Prophet said.📜💬📚
24 And they that were sent were of the Pharisees.📜💬📚
25 And they asked him, and said to him: Why then doest thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the Prophet?📜💬📚
26 John answered them, saying: I baptize in water; but there hath stood in the midst of you whom you know not.📜💬📚
27 The same is he that shall come after me, that is made before me; whose latchet of his shoe I am not worthy to loose.📜💬📚
28 These things were done in Bethania beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.📜💬📚
Jesus the Lamb of God
29 The next day John saw JESUS coming to him, and he saith: Behold the lamb of God, behold him that taketh away the sin, of the world.📜💬📚
30 This is he of whom I said: After me there cometh a man, which is made before me: because he was before me.📜💬📚
31 And I knew him not, but that he may be manifested in Israel, therefore came I baptizing in water.📜💬📚
32 And John gave testimony, saying: That I saw the Spirit descending as a dove from Heaven, and he remained upon him.📜💬📚
33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize in water, he said to me: He upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him, he it is that baptizeth in the Holy Ghost.📜💬📚
34 And I saw; and I gave testimony that this is the Son of God.📜💬📚
First Disciples
35 The next day again John stood, and two of his Disciples.📜💬📚
36 And beholding JESUS walking, he saith: Behold the Lamb of God.📜💬📚
37 And the two Disciples heard him speaking, and they followed JESUS.📜💬📚
38 And JESUS turning, and seeing them following him, saith to them, What seek you? Who said to him: Rabbi (which is called by interpretation, Master) where dwellest thou?📜💬📚
39 He saith to them: Come and see. They came, and saw where he abode, and they tarried with him that day: and it was about the tenth hour.📜💬📚
40 And Andrew the brother of Simon Peter was one of the two that had heard of John, and followed him.📜💬📚
41 He findeth first his brother Simon, and saith to him: We have found MESSIAS, which is being interpreted, CHRIST.📜💬📚
42 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.📜💬📚
Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael
43 On the morrow he would go forth into Galilee, and he findeth Philippe. And JESUS saith to him: Follow me.📜💬📚
44 And Philippe was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.📜💬📚
45 Philippe findeth Nathanael, and saith to him: Him whom Moyses in the law, and the Prophets wrote of, we have found, JESUS the son of Joseph, of Nazareth.📜💬📚
46 And Nathanael said to him: From Nazareth can there be any good? Philippe saith to him: Come and see.📜💬📚
47 JESUS saw Nathanael coming to him, and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite in very deed, in whom there is no guile.📜💬📚
48 Nathanael saith to him: How knowest thou me? JESUS answered and said to him: Before that Philippe did call thee, when thou wast under the figtree, I saw thee.📜💬📚
49 Nathanael answered him and saith: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel.📜💬📚
50 JESUS answered, and said to him: Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the figtree, thou believest; greater than these things shalt thou see.📜💬📚
51 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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