Luke 16:27
New International Version
“He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family,

New Living Translation
“Then the rich man said, ‘Please, Father Abraham, at least send him to my father’s home.

English Standard Version
And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house—

Berean Standard Bible
‘Then I beg you, father,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus to my father’s house,

Berean Literal Bible
And he said, 'Then I implore you, father, that you would send him to my father's house--

King James Bible
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:

New King James Version
“Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house,

New American Standard Bible
And he said, ‘Then I request of you, father, that you send him to my father’s house—

NASB 1995
“And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father’s house—

NASB 1977
“And he said, ‘Then I beg you, Father, that you send him to my father’s house—

Legacy Standard Bible
And he said, ‘Then I am asking you, father, that you send him to my father’s house—

Amplified Bible
So the rich man said, ‘Then, father [Abraham], I beg you to send Lazarus to my father’s house—

Christian Standard Bible
“ ‘Father,’ he said, ‘then I beg you to send him to my father’s house—

Holman Christian Standard Bible
“Father,’ he said, then I beg you to send him to my father’s house—

American Standard Version
And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“He said to him, 'Therefore, I beg of you, my father, to send him to my father's house.' “

Contemporary English Version
But the rich man said, "Abraham, then please send Lazarus to my father's home.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee, that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren,

English Revised Version
And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"The rich man responded, 'Then I ask you, Father, to send Lazarus back to my father's home.

Good News Translation
The rich man said, 'Then I beg you, father Abraham, send Lazarus to my father's house,

International Standard Version
"The rich man said, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house—

Literal Standard Version
And he said, I ask, then, father, that you may send him to the house of my father,

Majority Standard Bible
‘Then I beg you, father,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus to my father’s house,

New American Bible
He said, ‘Then I beg you, father, send him to my father’s house,

NET Bible
So the rich man said, 'Then I beg you, father--send Lazarus to my father's house

New Revised Standard Version
He said, ‘Then, father, I beg you to send him to my father’s house—

New Heart English Bible
"He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;

Webster's Bible Translation
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldst send him to my father's house:

Weymouth New Testament
"'I entreat you then, father,' said he, 'to send him to my father's house.

World English Bible
“He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house—

Young's Literal Translation
'And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father,

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Context
The Rich Man and Lazarus
26And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us.’ 27‘Then I beg you, father,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus to my father’s house, 28for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.’…

Cross References
Luke 16:26
And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us.'

Luke 16:28
for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.'


Treasury of Scripture

Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house:

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(27) I pray thee therefore, father.--The re iterated appeal to Abraham as "father" is suggestive in many ways: (1) as speaking out that in which too many of the rich man's class put an undue trust, resting on the fatherhood of Abraham rather than on that of God (Matthew 3:9); (2) as showing that the refusal of the previous verse had been accepted, as it were, submissively. There is no rebellious defiance, no blasphemous execration, such as men have pictured to themselves as resounding ever more in the realms of darkness. Abraham is the sufferer's father still, and he yet counts on his sympathy.

Verses 27, 28. - Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them; lest they also come into this place of torment. The condemned acquiesces in this dread fact; convinced of the utter impossibility of any interchange of sympathy between him and the dwellers in the realms of bliss, he ceases to pray for any alleviation of his own sad and wretched state. But another wail of woe quickly rises from the awful solitude. What means this second prayer of the doomed man? Are we to read in it the first signs of a new and noble purpose in the lost soul, the first dawning of loving thoughts and tender care for others? It seems, perhaps, unkind not to recognize this; but the Divine Speaker evidently had another purpose here when he put these words into the mouth of the lost rich man - he would teach the great lesson to the living that a selfish life is inexcusable. On first thoughts, the rich man's request to Abraham appears prompted alone by his anxiety for the future of his brothers who were still alive; but on examination it would seem, to use the striking words of Professor Bruce, that he wished rather to justify his own sad past by some such. reflection as this: "Had only some one come from the dead with the calm, clear light of eternity shining in his eyes, to inform me that this life beyond is no table, that Paradise is a place or state of unspeakable bliss, and Gehenna a place or state of unspeakable woe, I should have renounced my voluptuous, selfish ways, and entered on the path of piety and charity. If one had come to me from the dead, I had surely repented, and so should not have come to this place of torment."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
‘Then
οὖν (oun)
Conjunction
Strong's 3767: Therefore, then. Apparently a primary word; certainly, or accordingly.

I beg
Ἐρωτῶ (Erōtō)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 2065: Apparently from ereo; to interrogate; by implication, to request.

you,
σε (se)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

father,’
πάτερ (pater)
Noun - Vocative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

he said,
Εἶπεν (Eipen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say.

‘send
πέμψῃς (pempsēs)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 3992: To send, transmit, permit to go, put forth.

[Lazarus]
αὐτὸν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

to
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

my
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

father’s
πατρός (patros)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

house,
οἶκον (oikon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3624: A dwelling; by implication, a family.


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