19 Now there was this guy who was rich, and he dressed up in [expensive] purple garments and fine linen, feasting conspicuously every day. 20 But there was a poor person—his name was Lazarus—who was dropped off at his gate, covered with sores 21 and longing to fill up on whatever fell from the rich guy’s table. Instead, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. 22 Now it so happened that the poor man died, and he was carried away by angels into the embrace of Abraham. Now the rich man also died and was buried. 23 And in Hades, he lifted up his eyes as he was suffering torments and sees Abraham at a distance and Lazarus in his embrace. 24 And he called out and said, “Father Abraham, have mercy on me! And send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I’m in agony in this fire.” 25 But Abraham said, “Child, remember that you received your good things in your lifetime, whereas Lazarus received bad things. So now, here he is being comforted, but you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set up, so that those who want to pass over from here to you can’t do so, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.” 27 So [the rich guy] said, “I ask you, then, father, that you send him to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, that they don’t also come to this place of torment.” 29 But Abraham says, “They have Moses and the prophets. They should listen to them.” 30 But he said, “Not so, father Abraham! But if someone should go to them from the dead, they will repent.” 31 Then Abraham said to him, “If to Moses and the prophets they won’t listen, neither will they be persuaded even if someone should arise from the dead.”