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Here's the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31 in the New
International Version (NIV)
The Rich Man and
Lazarus
19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and
lived in luxury every day.
20 At his gate was laid a beggar named
Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich
man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to
Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.
23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked
up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.
24 So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have
pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my
tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’
25 “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received
your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is
comforted here and you are in agony.
26 And besides all this, between us and you a
great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to
you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’
27 “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family,28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so
that they will not also come to this place of torment.’
29 “Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them
listen to them.’
30 “‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes
to them, they will repent.’
31 “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they
will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”
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Here's the story of the Death of Lazarus and other stories in the mix of that story in the gospel of John 11: 1 to 12:11.
This is also the New International Version (NIV).
The Death of Lazarus
11: 1 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village
of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who
poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)
3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is
sick.”
4 When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in
death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified
through it.”
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two
more days,7 and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back
to Judea.”
8 “But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to
stone you, and yet you are going back?”
9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who
walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light.10 It
is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”
11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our
friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”
12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.”
13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he
meant natural sleep.
14 So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15 and
for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go
to him.”
16 Then Thomas (also known as Didymus[a]) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us
also go, that we may die with him.”
Jesus Comforts the Sisters of Lazarus
17 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb
for four days.
18 Now Bethany was less than two miles [b] from Jerusalem,19 and many
Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their
brother.
20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him,
but Mary stayed at home.
21 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would
not have died. 22 But I know that even now God will give you
whatever you ask.”
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at
the last day.”
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the
life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they
die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never
die. Do you believe this?”
27 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the
Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
28 After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside.
“The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you."
29 When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.
30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the
place where Martha had met him.
31 When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting
her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her,
supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his
feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her
also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and trouble.
34 “Where have you laid him?” he asked.
“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind
man have kept this man from dying?”
Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead
38 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with
a stone laid across the entrance. 39 “Take away the
stone,” he said.
“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time
there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”
40 Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you
will see the glory of God?”
41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and
said, “Father,I thank you that you have heard me.
42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of
the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come
out!”
44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of
linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
The Plot to Kill Jesus
45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen
what Jesus did, believed in him.
46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had
done.
47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a
meeting of the Sanhedrin.
“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing
many signs.
48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and
then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”
49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke
up, “You know nothing at all!
50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for
the people than that the whole nation perish.”
51 He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he
prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, 52 and
not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring
them together and make them one.
53 So from that day on they plotted to take his life.
54 Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of
Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village
called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from
the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the
Passover.
56 They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple
courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the
festival at all?”
57 But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that
anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest
him.
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
12 Six days before the Passover celebration began, Jesus arrived in
Bethany, the home of Lazarus—the man he had raised from the dead.
2 A dinner was prepared in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, and Lazarus
was among those who ate[a] with him.
3 Then Mary took a twelve-ounce jar[b]of expensive perfume made from essence of
nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet with it, wiping his feet with her hair. The
house was filled with the fragrance.
4 But Judas Iscariot, the disciple who would soon betray him, said,5 “That
perfume was worth a year’s wages.[c] It should have been sold and the money
given to the poor.” 6 Not that he cared for the poor—he was a
thief, and since he was in charge of the disciples’ money, he often stole some
for himself.
7 Jesus replied, “Leave her alone. She did this in preparation for my
burial.
8 You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always
have me.”
9 When all the people[d] heard of Jesus’ arrival, they
flocked to see him and also to see Lazarus, the man Jesus had raised from the
dead.
10 Then the leading priests decided to kill Lazarus, too, 11 for
it was because of him that many of the people had deserted them[e] and believed in Jesus.
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by Fedor Bronnikov, 1886.
