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Parable 32 · to the leaders

The Rich Man and El'azar

Lukas 16:19–31
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What Yeshua is saying

A rich man feasts daily while a beggar named El'azar dies at his gate; in the next life their positions are reversed and unbridgeable.

The explanation

The chasm is fixed. Yeshua names the beggar — El'azar — but the rich man has no name in heaven's record. The brothers must not wait for a sign from the dead; they have Moshe and the prophets. If they will not hear them, neither will they be persuaded by a resurrection. Yeshua says this knowing what is coming.

Echoes from the Tanakh
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