Luke 16:20

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

And a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was full of sores, was laid at the rich man’s doorway.

Cross References

Matthew 26:71

And when he had gone out by the gate, another servant-girl saw him and said to those nearby, “This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

Luke 16:19

“Now there was a certain rich man who was dressed in purple [clothing] and soft linen [garments] and who lived every day in pleasure and luxury.

Luke 16:21

He longed to be fed with scraps that fell from the rich man’s table and even dogs came and licked his sores.

John 11:1

Now a certain man named Lazarus, from Bethany, became sick. Bethany was the town where Mary and her sister Martha lived. [See 11:18].

Acts 3:2

[On their way] they met a certain man who had been crippled from birth. Every day he had been carried [by friends] and placed at the “Beautiful Gate” [as it was called] of the Temple [enclosure] where he begged for money from those entering the Temple.

James 1:9

But the person [who must live] in humble circumstances should be happy over being lifted up [spiritually by God].

James 2:5

Listen, my dearly loved brothers; did not God choose those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be wealthy in faith and to inherit the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?