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THE HOLY BIBLE
Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,
and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with
the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner
A.D. 1749-1752
THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN
St. John the Apostle and Evangelist was the son of Zebedee and Salome,
brother to James the Greater. He was called the Beloved disciple of
Christ and stood by at his Crucifixion. He wrote the Gospel after the
other Evangelists, about sixty-three years after our Lord's Ascension.
Many things that they had omitted were supplied by him. The original was
written in Greek; and by the Greeks he is titled: The Divine, St. Jerome
relates that, when he was earnestly requested by the brethren to write
the Gospel, he answered he would do it, if by ordering a common fast,
they would all put up their prayers together to the Almighty God; which
being ended replenished with the clearest and fullest revelation coming
from Heaven, he burst forth into that preface: IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE
WORD.
John Chapter 1
The divinity and incarnation of Christ. John bears witness of him. He
begins to call his disciples.
1:1. In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the
Word was God.
1:2. The same was in the beginning with God.
1:3. All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that
was made.
1:4. In him was life: and the life was the light of men.
1:5. And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not
comprehend it.
1:6. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
1:7. This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the light, that
all men might believe through him.
1:8. He was not the light, but was to give testimony of the light.
1:9. That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh
into this world.
1:10. He was in the world: and the world was made by him: and the world
knew him not.
1:11. He came unto his own: and his own received him not.
1:12. But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the
sons of God, to them that believe in his name.
1:13. Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of
the will of man, but of God.
1:14. 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.
1:15. 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.
1:16. And of his fulness we all have received: and grace for grace.
1:17. For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ.
1:18. No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in
the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
1:19. And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from
Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?
1:20. And he confessed and did not deny: and he confessed: I am not the
Christ.
1:21. And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am
not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered: No.
1:22. They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an
answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?
1:23. He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make
straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.
1:24. And they that were sent were of the Pharisees.
1:25. And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if
thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?
1:26. John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath
stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.
1:27. 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.
1:28. These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John
was baptizing.
1:29. 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.
1:30. This is he of whom I said: After me there cometh a man, who is
preferred before me: because he was before me.
1:31. And I knew him not: but that he may be made manifest in Israel,
therefore am I come baptizing with water.
1:32. And John gave testimony, saying: I saw the Spirit coming down, as
a dove from heaven; and he remained upon him.
1:33. 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.
1:34. And I saw: and I gave testimony that this is the Son of God.
1:35. The next day again John stood and two of his disciples.
1:36. And beholding Jesus walking, he saith: Behold the Lamb of God.
1:37. And the two disciples heard him speak: and they followed Jesus.
1:38. 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?
1:39. 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.
1:40. And Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who had
heard of John and followed him.
1:41. He findeth first his brother Simon and saith to him: We have found
the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
1:42. 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.
1:43. On the following day, he would go forth into Galilee: and he
findeth Philip, And Jesus saith to him: follow me.
1:44. Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
1:45. 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.
1:46. And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come from
Nazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see.
1:47. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and he saith of him: Behold an
Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.
1:48. 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.
1:49. Nathanael answered him and said: Rabbi: Thou art the Son of God.
Thou art the King of Israel.
1:50. 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.
1:51. 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.
John Chapter 2
Christ changes water into wine. He casts the sellers out of the temple.
2:1. And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the
mother of Jesus was there.
2:2. And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.
2:3. And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have
no wine.
2:4. And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee? My
hour is not yet come.
What is that to me, etc... These words of our Saviour, spoken to his
mother, have been understood by some commentators as harsh, they not
considering the next following verse: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do
ye, which plainly shows that his mother knew of the miracle that he was
to perform, and that it was at her request he wrought it; besides the
manner of speaking the words as to the tone, and the countenance shown
at the same time, which could only be known to those who were present,
or from what had followed: for words indicating anger in one tone of
voice, would be understood quite the reverse in another.
2:5. His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do
ye.
2:6. Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the
manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three measures
apiece.
2:7. Jesus saith to them: Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled
them up to the brim.
2:8. And Jesus saith to them: Draw out now and carry to the chief
steward of the feast. And they carried it.
2:9. And when the chief steward had tasted the water made wine and knew
not whence it was, but the waiters knew who had drawn the water: the
chief steward calleth the bridegroom,
2:10. And saith to him: Every man at first setteth forth good wine, and
when men have well drunk, then that which is worse. But thou hast kept
the good wine until now.
2:11. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee and
manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
2:12. After this, he went down to Capharnaum, he and his mother and his
brethren and his disciples: and they remained there not many days.
2:13. And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem.
2:14. And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and
doves, and the changers of money sitting.
2:15. And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he
drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen: and the
money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.
2:16. And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and
make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.
2:17. And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy
house hath eaten me up.
2:18. The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost
thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?
2:19. Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three
days I will raise it up.
2:20. The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in
building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
2:21. But he spoke of the temple of his body.
2:22. When therefore he was risen again from the dead, his disciples
remembered that he had said this: and they believed the scripture and
the word that Jesus had said.
2:23. Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the pasch, upon the festival day,
many believed in his name, seeing his signs which he did.
2:24. But Jesus did not trust himself unto them: for that he knew all
men,
2:25. And because he needed not that any should give testimony of man:
for he knew what was in man.
John Chapter 3
Christ's discourse with Nicodemus. John's testimony.
3:1. And there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of
the Jews.
3:2. 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.
3:3. 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.
3:4. 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?
3:5. 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.
Unless a man be born again, etc... By these words our Saviour hath
declared the necessity of baptism; and by the word water it is evident
that the application of it is necessary with the words. Matt. 28. 19.
3:6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and that which is born of
the Spirit is spirit.
3:7. Wonder not that I said to thee: You must be born again.
3:8. 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.
3:9. Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can these things be done?
3:10. Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou a master in Israel, and
knowest not these things?
3:11. 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.
3:12. If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not: how
will you believe, if I shall speak to you heavenly things?
3:13. And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from
heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.
3:14. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son
of man be lifted up:
3:15. That whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life
everlasting.
3:16. 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.
3:17. For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but
that the world may be saved by him.
3:18. 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.
Is not judged... He that believeth, viz., by a faith working through
charity, is not judged, that is, is not condemned; but the obstinate
unbeliever is judged, that is, condemned already, by retrenching himself
from the society of Christ and his church.
3:19. 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.
The judgment... That is, the cause of his comdemnation.
3:20. For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to
the light, that his works may not be reproved.
3:21. But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be
made manifest: because they are done in God.
He that doth truth... that is, he that acteth according to truth, which
here signifies the Law of God. Thy law is truth. Psa. 118. 142.
3:22. After these things, Jesus and his disciples came into the land of
Judea: and there he abode with them and baptized.
3:23. And John also was baptizing in Ennon near Salim: because there was
much water there. And they came and were baptized.
3:24. For John was not yet cast into prison.
3:25. And there arose a question between some of John's disciples and
the Jews, concerning purification.
3:26. 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.
3:27. John answered and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it
be given him from heaven.
3:28. You yourselves do bear me witness that I said that I am not
Christ, but that I am sent before him.
3:29. 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.
3:30. He must increase: but I must decrease.
3:31. 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.
3:32. And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth: and no man
receiveth his testimony.
3:33. He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God
is true.
3:34. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God doth
not give the Spirit by measure.
3:35. The Father loveth the Son: and he hath given all things into his
hand.
3:36. 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.
John Chapter 4
Christ talks with the Samaritan woman. He heals the ruler's son.
4:1. When Jesus therefore understood the Pharisees had heard that Jesus
maketh more disciples and baptizeth more than John,
4:2. (Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples),
4:3. He left Judea and went again into Galilee.
4:4. And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.
4:5. He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar,
near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
4:6. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his
journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
4:7. There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her:
Give me to drink.
4:8. For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.
4:9. Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew;
ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not
communicate with the Samaritans.
4:10. Jesus answered and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God
and who he is that saith to thee: Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst
have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
4:11. The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw,
and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou living water?
4:12. Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and
drank thereof, himself and his children and his cattle?
4:13. Jesus answered and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water
shall thirst again: but he that shall drink of the water that I will
give him shall not thirst for ever.
4:14. But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain
of water, springing up into life everlasting.
4:15. The woman said to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not
thirst, nor come hither to draw.
4:16. Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
4:17. The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her:
Thou hast said well: I have no husband.
4:18. For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast is not
thy husband. This, thou hast said truly.
4:19. The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
4:20. Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem
is the place where men must adore.
This mountain... Garizim, where the Samaritans had their schismatical
temple.
4:21. Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me that the hour cometh, when
you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, adore the Father.
4:22. You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know.
For salvation is of the Jews.
4:23. But the hour cometh and now is, when the true adorers shall adore
the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to
adore him.
4:24. God is a spirit: and they that adore him must adore him in spirit
and in truth.
4:25. The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is
called Christ): therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.
4:26. Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.
4:27. And immediately his disciples came. And they wondered that he
talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? Or: Why
talkest thou with her?
4:28. The woman therefore left her waterpot and went her way into the
city and saith to the men there:
4:29. Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have
done. Is not he the Christ?
4:30. They went therefore out of the city and came unto him.
4:31. In the mean time, the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.
4:32. But he said to them: I have meat to eat which you know not.
4:33. The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought
him to eat?
4:34. Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent
me, that I may perfect his work.
4:35. Do not you say: There are yet four months, and then the harvest
cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries.
For they are white already to harvest.
4:36. And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life
everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice
together.
4:37. For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth,
and it is another that reapeth.
4:38. I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others
have laboured: and you have entered into their labours.
4:39. Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the
word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I
have done.
4:40. So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he
would tarry there. And he abode there two days.
4:41. And many more believed in him, because of his own word.
4:42. And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying:
for we ourselves have heard him and know that this is indeed the Saviour
of the world.
4:43. Now after two days, he departed thence and went into Galilee.
4:44. For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in
his own country.
4:45. And when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him,
having seen all the things he had done at Jerusalem on the festival day:
for they also went to the festival day.
4:46. He came again therefore into Cana of Galilee, where he made the
water wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at
Capharnaum.
4:47. He having heard that Jesus was come from Judea into Galilee, sent
to him and prayed him to come down and heal his son: for he was at the
point of death.
4:48. Jesus therefore said to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you
believe not.
4:49. The ruler saith to him: Lord, come down before that my son die.
4:50. Jesus saith to him: Go thy way. Thy son liveth. The man believed
the word which Jesus said to him and went his way.
4:51. And as he was going down, his servants met him: and they brought
word, saying, that his son lived.
4:52. He asked therefore of them the hour wherein he grew better. And
they said to him: Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.
4:53. The father therefore knew that it was at the same hour that Jesus
said to him: Thy son liveth. And himself believed, and his whole house.
4:54. This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come
out of Judea. into Galilee.
John Chapter 5
Christ heals on the sabbath the man languishing thirty-eight years. His
discourse upon this occasion.
5:1. After these things was a festival day of the Jews: and Jesus went
up to Jerusalem.
5:2. Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew
is named Bethsaida, having five porches.
Probatica... That is, the sheep pond; either so called, because the
sheep were washed therein, that were to be offered up in sacrifice in
the temple, or because it was near the sheep gate. That this was a pond
where miracles were wrought is evident from the sacred text; and also
that the water had no natural virtue to heal, as one only of those put
in after the motion of the water was restored to health; for if the
water had the healing quality, the others would have the like benefit,
being put into it about the same time.
5:3. In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of
withered: waiting for the moving of the water.
5:4. 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.
5:5. And there was a certain man there that had been eight and thirty
years under his infirmity.
5:6. 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?
5:7. 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.
5:8. Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed and walk.
5:9. And immediately the man was made whole: and he took up his bed and
walked. And it was the sabbath that day.
5:10. The Jews therefore said to him that was healed: It is the sabbath.
It is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.
5:11. He answered them: He that made me whole, he said to me: Take up
thy bed and walk.
5:12. They asked him therefore: Who is that man who said to thee: Take
up thy bed and walk?
5:13. But he who was healed knew not who it was: for Jesus went aside
from the multitude standing in the place.
5:14. 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.
5:15. The man went his way and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had
made him whole.
5:16. Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these
things on the sabbath.
5:17. But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.
5:18. Hereupon 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.
5:19. 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.
5:20. 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.