Luke 16:27
And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father`s house;
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:
In Context
Cross References
Job 21:21For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?
Psalms 17:14From men by thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, whose portion is in [this] life, And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure: They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Psalms 49:13This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah
Ecclesiastes 2:18And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Matthew Henry on Luke 16:20-31
The Rich Man and Lazarus. 19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23 And in hell he lift up… Read the whole commentary →