Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table but no one would give him. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. Then it came to pass that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ But Abraham answered, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus received evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’ “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers - so that he might warn them, that they also might not come to this place of torment.' But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’ But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’ But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not believe even if one rises from the dead...’ ” (Luke 16:19-Luke 16:31)