The Repository The Quiet Reading

John 20-21, Acts 1-3 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes

October 11, 2026 · Runtime 22:06 · Watch on YouTube

A stone found rolled away "while it was still dark." One word in a garden — "Rabboni!" — and Thomas saying "My Lord and my God!" Then John closes, Acts begins, and a sound comes "like the rushing of a mighty wind." Read aloud, unhurried.

Chapters

  1. 0:00 John 20
  2. 4:16 John 21
  3. 8:26 Acts 1
  4. 12:20 Acts 2
  5. 18:26 Acts 3

Description and sources

The Quiet Reading is the New Testament read straight through, in order, one passage at a time — no commentary and no captions burned over the picture. Just the text, a voice, a soft instrumental bed far beneath it, and somewhere real to rest your eyes while you listen.

This is episode 22 of 47. John ends here — the empty tomb, the garden, Thomas, and a breakfast on the shore of the sea of Tiberias — and Acts begins: the cloud on the mountain, the day of Pentecost, Peter's first sermon, and a man lame from birth at the temple gate called Beautiful.

SUBTITLES

English (World English Bible) and Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909),

timed verse by verse to the narration.

Text: World English Bible (WEB), public domain.

Spanish subtitles: Reina-Valera 1909, public domain.

Narrated with a synthesized voice (Microsoft Edge neural TTS). The text is read in full, unabridged and unaltered.

PRINT-READY, FROM THIS CHANNEL

Read It Whole, Vol. 01 — the plan, the index, and the translation notes

https://therepository.gumroad.com/l/read-it-whole

LANDSCAPE FOOTAGE

Creek babbling through Benvoulin wetlands — Extemporalist - Wikimedia Commons

Crooked River (37271139176) — BLM Oregon Washington - Wikimedia Commons

Crooked River (37288875152) — BLM Oregon Washington - Wikimedia Commons

Fourmile Creek (32797217753) — BLM Oregon Washington - Wikimedia Commons

Fourmile Creek (33611077835) — BLM Oregon Washington - Wikimedia Commons

Molalla River in autumn (44506779344) — BLM Oregon Washington - Wikimedia Commons

Molalla River in autumn (45228879031) — BLM Oregon Washington - Wikimedia Commons

Nature montage around Aberfeldy — Rose Abrams - Wikimedia Commons

North Fork Owyhee Wild & Scenic River (35066816690) — BLM Oregon Washington - Wikimedia Commons

Red Rock Wash At Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area — Thomas Farley - Wikimedia Commons

Santa Rosa Island Waves — Blervis - Wikimedia Commons

Southern view of Rattlesnake Island in Winter — Extemporalist - Wikimedia Commons

Low Gap Trail in Autumn — NPS | N. Lewis - Shenandoah National Park - NPGallery

Mill Prong Stream — National Park Service - Shenandoah National Park - NPGallery

ForestSounds_LogMeadow — Steven Bumgardner of Midpines Media for the National Park Service - Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks - NPGallery

2021-08-31 Glacier Bay Entrance Night Sky with Aurora and Moon — NPS Video / S. Tevebaugh - Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve - NPGallery

Circle Creek Basin — National Park Service - City of Rocks National Reserve - NPGallery

Grande Ronde Wild and Scenic River (35034497501) — BLM Oregon Washington - Wikimedia Commons

Grande Ronde Wild and Scenic River (35034510631) — BLM Oregon Washington - Wikimedia Commons

Grande Ronde Wild and Scenic River (35034519291) — BLM Oregon Washington - Wikimedia Commons

Timelapse of lower John Day Wild and Scenic River (34835339472) — BLM Oregon Washington - Wikimedia Commons

Mann Lake Recreation Site (33051524893) — BLM Oregon Washington - Wikimedia Commons