24. So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am tormented in this flame.’
25. “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things. But now he is comforted and you are tormented.
26. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf, so that those who would pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
27. “He said, ‘Then I pray you, father, to send him to my father’s house,
28. for I have five brothers, to testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’
29. “Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets. Let them hear them.’