Luke 16:19–31

THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS

¹⁹“There was a rich man who would dress in purple and fine linen,^e feasting lavishly every day. ²⁰But a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, was lying at his gate.^{f 21}He longed to be filled^g with what fell from the rich man’s table,^h but instead the dogsⁱ would come and lick his sores. ²²One day the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side.^j The rich man also died and was buried. ²³And being in torment^k in Hades,^l he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off, with Lazarus at his side. ²⁴‘Father Abraham!’^m he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agonyⁿ in this flame!’

²⁵“ ‘Son,’^A Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things,^o just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here,^p while you are in agony. ²⁶Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass over from here to you cannot; neither can those from there cross over to us.’

²⁷“ ‘Father,’ he said, ‘then I beg you to send him to my father’s house—²⁸because I have five brothers—to warn ^qthem, so that they won’t also come to this place of torment.’

²⁹“But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; ^rthey should listen to them.’

³⁰“ ‘No, father Abraham,’ he said. ‘But if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

³¹“But he told him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.’ ”^s