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11:14- 31 Now when
the Pharisees heard these things
they scoffed at him as they were money lovers. And he said to them. "You are the ones who justify
yourselves before people. But God
knows your hearts. What is exalted
before people is in fact an abomination before God. The law and the prophets were the
priority until the time of John.
From then on the kingdom
of God has been
preached and everyone is pressing towards it. But it is easier for heaven and earth to
pass away than for one little part of the law to become void. Everyone who dismisses his wife and
marries another commits adultery.
The one who marries a woman who has been dismissed from another
commits adultery.
Now
there was a certain man who was rich.
He used to put on a purple robe and fine linen
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and
spent every day in splendour being merry.
And a certain poor man by the name of Lazarus had been placed at his
gate. He was covered with sores and
he wanted to be fed from what was falling from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his
sores. And it happened that the poor
man died and was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. Then the rich man also died and was
buried. And when in Hades, the
latter lifted up his eyes in torment.
He saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom. He called out and said "Father
Abraham. Pity me and send Lazarus
that he may dip the tip of his finger into water and cool my tongue because
I am suffering in this flame. But
Abraham said "Child. remember
that you received
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good
things in your life. Lazarus
received the bad. But now, here he
is, comforted. But you are
suffering. And amongst all these
things there is between us and you, a great chasm that has been firmly
fixed so that those wanting to pass from here to yourself cannot do
so. Neither can they cross over to
us.
And
(the previously rich man said) "I ask you therefore father that you
could send him to my father's house.
For I have five brothers, so that he may warn them in case they also
come to this place of torment. But
Abraham says. "They have Moses
and the prophets. Let them hear
them." But he said "No
father Abraham. But if someone from
the dead should go to them, they will repent. " But he said to him. "If they do not hear Moses and the
prophets, neither if someone rises out of the dead, will they be
persuaded."
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