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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New Testament

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220,277 words · about 15 h 26 min to read

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About this book

Language
English
Subjects
Bible. New Testament
Length
220,277 words · about 15 h 26 min
Sections
28 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (28)
  1. Opening about 4 min
  2. THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO SAINT MATTHEW about 2 h 1 min
  3. THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO ST. MARK about 1 h 9 min
  4. THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE about 2 h
  5. THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN about 1 h 33 min
  6. THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES about 1 h 51 min
  7. THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE ROMANS about 55 min
  8. THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS about 51 min
  9. THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS about 29 min
  10. THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE GALATIANS about 16 min
  11. THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE EPHESIANS about 15 min
  12. THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE PHILIPPIANS about 12 min
  13. THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE COLOSSIANS about 12 min
  14. THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS about 9 min
  15. THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS about 6 min
  16. THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO TIMOTHY about 12 min
  17. THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO TIMOTHY about 8 min
  18. THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO TITUS about 5 min
  19. THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO PHILEMON about 3 min
  20. THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE HEBREWS about 36 min
  21. THE CATHOLIC EPISTLE OF ST. JAMES THE APOSTLE about 13 min
  22. THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PETER THE APOSTLE about 12 min
  23. THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PETER THE APOSTLE about 8 min
  24. THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE about 18 min
  25. THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE about 2 min
  26. THE THIRD EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE about 2 min
  27. THE CATHOLIC EPISTLE OF ST. JUDE about 5 min
  28. THE APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE about 1 h 18 min

The opening of THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO SAINT MATTHEW

Saint Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, who from being a publican, that is, a taxgatherer, was called by our Saviour to the Apostleship: in that profession his name is Levi. (Luke 5.27, and Mark 2.14.) He was the first of the Evangelists that wrote the Gospel, and that in Hebrew or Syro-Chaldaic which the Jews in Palestine spoke at that time. The original is not now extant; but it was translated in the time of the Apostles into Greek, that version was of equal authority. He wrote about six years after the Lord's Ascension.

Matthew Chapter 1

The genealogy of Christ: he is conceived and born of a virgin.

1:1. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:

Read on in Part 1 →