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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

那人說：‘我祖啊，那麼求你差遣拉撒路到我家裡去，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
财 主 说 ： 我 祖 阿 ！ 既 是 这 样 ， 求 你 打 发 拉 撒 路 到 我 父 家 去 ；

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Jesus said, "There was a rich man who always dressed in the finest clothes and lived in luxury every day. ²⁰ And a very poor man named Lazarus, whose body was covered with sores, was laid at the rich man's gate. ²¹ He wanted to eat only the small pieces of food that fell from the rich man's table. And the dogs would come and lick his sores. ²² Later, Lazarus died, and the angels carried him to the arms of Abraham. The rich man died, too, and was buried. ²³ In the place of the dead, he was in much pain. The rich man saw Abraham far away with Lazarus at his side. ²⁴ He called, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me! Send Lazarus to dip his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am suffering in this fire!' ²⁵ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember when you were alive you had the good things in life, but bad things happened to Lazarus. Now he is comforted here, and you are suffering. ²⁶ Besides, there is a big pit between you and us, so no one can cross over to you, and no one can leave there and come here.' ²⁷ The rich man said, ‘Father, then please send Lazarus to my father's house. ²⁸ I have five brothers, and Lazarus could warn them so that they will not come to this place of pain.'

Bible Verse Review
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Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then he said, I pray thee therefore father,.... The Cambridge, copy of Beza's, and the Ethiopic version read, "father Abraham"; finding he could have no redress of his misery, nor any relief for himself, he applies for others:

that thou wouldst send him to my father's house; the house of Israel and Jacob, the surviving Jews: and this agrees also with a notion of theirs, that the dead seek for mercy for them l. The Persic and Ethiopic versions read, "that thou wouldst send Lazarus", &c. whom the one calls Gazarus, and the other Eleazar.

l T. Bab. Taanith, fol. 16. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Five brethren - The number “five” is mentioned merely to preserve the appearance of verisimilitude in the story. It is not to be spiritualized, nor are we to suppose that it has any hidden or inscrutable meaning.

May testify unto them - May bear “witness” to them, or may inform them of what is my situation, and the dreadful consequences of the life that I have led. It is remarkable that he did not ask to go himself. He knew that he could not be released, even for so short a time. His condition was fixed. Yet he had no wish that his friends should suffer, and he supposed that if one went from the dead they would hear him.