Luke 16:28
for I have five brothers; that he may go and protest to them; lest they also come to this place of torment.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
27He said to him: I pray thee, therefore, my father, that thou wouldst send him to my father's house;
29Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them.
Cross References
Acts 2:40And in many other words he testified to them, and entreated of them, saying: Live ye from this perverse generation.
1 Thessalonians 4:6and that ye dare not to transgress and to overreach any one his brother, in this matter; because our Lord is the avenger of all these, as also we have said and testified to you in time past.
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 →