19There was a certain rich man who dressed in purple cloth and fine linen and celebrated magnificently every day.20A poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores.21He longed to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table, but the dogs came and licked his sores.22The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.23In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being already in torment, and saw Abraham from afar and Lazarus in his bosom.24He called out and said, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in pain in this flame.'25Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you received your good things in your lifetime, and Lazarus likewise received evil things; now he is comforted here, but you are in pain.'26Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who wish to cross from here to you cannot do so, nor can anyone cross from there to us.27He 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 to this place of torment.'29Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.'30He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'31He said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.'