Thank you for joining our study about The Rich Man and Lazarus. There is much to learn from this short parable that Jesus told His disciples, found only in Luke’s gospel. Before we review the passage, ...

Today’s Gospel is the Parable of Lazarus (or Dives) and the rich man. The parable is about two people: a rich man and a poor man. The rich man “dressed in purple garments” (a sign of wealth) and ...

“There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus covered in sores, who would gladly have eaten his ...

I was reading the account in the Bible about Lazarus and the rich man [Luke 16:19-30]. How Lazarus, who was a beggar, laid at the gate full of sores. He was so poor he desired to be fed with the ...

Once, Jesus told a parable about a rich man and Lazarus, the only person ever named in Jesus' parables. He told it to shake up his audience. Today, we're his audience. Luke recounts this parable with ...

It’s surprising that the rich man in Luke 16 knew that the beggar outside his gate was named Lazarus because, as Father Abraham implies in the parable, the rich man gave the poor man little during his ...

Once, Jesus told a parable about a rich man and Lazarus, the only person ever named in Jesus' parables. He told it to shake up his audience. Today, we're his audience. Luke recounts this parable with ...

As an octogenarian contemplating what may lie ahead, I have been drawn recently to the parable of Lazarus and the rich man (Luke 16:19-31). The parable describes the rich man's behavior toward the ...