The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹“There was a rich man who was clothed in epurple and fine linen and fwho feasted sumptuously every day. ²⁰And at his gate gwas laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, ²¹who desired to be fed with hwhat fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. ²²The poor man died and was carried by ithe angels jto Abraham's side.6 The rich man also died and was buried, ²³and in kHades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and lsaw Abraham far off and Lazarus jat his side. ²⁴And he called out, m‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and ncool my tongue, for oI am in anguish in this flame.’ ²⁵But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that pyou in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. ²⁶And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ ²⁷And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house— ²⁸for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ ²⁹But Abraham said, ‘They have qMoses and the Prophets; rlet them hear them.’ ³⁰And he said, ‘No, sfather Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ ³¹He said to him, ‘If they do not hear qMoses and the Prophets, tneither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”