[16:19] “There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
[16:20] And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,
[16:21] who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
[16:22] The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried,
[16:23] and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
[16:24] And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’
[16:25] But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you 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.
[16:26] And 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.’
[16:27] And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house—
[16:28] for I have five brothers —so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’
[16:29] But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’
[16:30] And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
[16:31] He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”