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, ...

Once, while he was traveling south from Galilee to Jerusalem for Passover, Jesus stopped and began to tell several parables. One of the parables Jesus tells on this occasion has felt particularly ...

As the Gospel opens, we see the rich man (some call him Dives, which simply means “rich”): “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.” It is ...

In these troubled times, the timeless parable of “The Rich Man and Lazarus” from Luke 16:19-31 offers a stark and sobering lens through which to view the current revelations. Jesus’ narrative, ...

This parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (or in older versions, Dives and Lazarus, ‘Dives’ being not a name but the Latin for a rich man) is another of Luke’s so-called ‘Parables of Crisis’, ‘crisis’, ...

The importance of the parables can hardly be overestimated. They comprise a substantial part of the recorded preaching of Jesus. The parables are generally regarded by scholars as among the sayings ...