Luke 16

Luke 16 is the sixteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the teachings and parables of Jesus Christ, including the famous parable of the "rich man and Lazarus".[1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles.[2]

Luke 16
The Latin text of Luke 14:30–19:7 in Codex Gigas (13th century).
BookGospel of Luke
CategoryGospel
Christian Bible partNew Testament
Order in the Christian part3

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 31 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:

Parable of the Unjust Steward
Jan Luyken etching of the parable of the unjust steward, Bowyer Bible.
Main article: Parable of the Unjust Steward

This parable of Jesus appears in Luke, but not in the other Canonical gospels of the New Testament. It tells a story about a steward who is about to be dismissed, but curries favor with his master's debtors by remitting some of their debts. The New International Version calls this story "the parable of the shrewd manager".[3]

Verse 16
The law and the prophets [were] until John.[4]

There is no verb in the original Greek: the word were is generally added to make sense of the sentence.[5] The ISV says they were fulfilled with John.[6] The NIV says they were proclaimed until John.[7] Matthew's text says:

All the prophets and the law prophesied (επροφητευσαν, eprophēteusan) until John.[8]

Account of the Rich Man and Lazarus
Lazarus and Dives, illumination from the Codex Aureus of Echternach
Top panel: Lazarus at the rich man's door
Middle panel: Lazarus' soul is carried to Paradise by two angels; Lazarus in Abraham's bosom
Bottom panel: Dives' soul is carried off by two devils to Hell; Dives is tortured in Hades
Main article: Rich man and Lazarus

The account of the rich man and Lazarus (also called the Dives and Lazarus or Lazarus and Dives) is a well-known teachings along with the parables of Jesus appearing in the Gospel of Luke. It tells of the relationship, in life and in death, between an unnamed rich man and a poor beggar named Lazarus. The traditional name, Dives, is not actually a name, but instead a word for "rich man",[9] dives, in the text of the Latin Bible, the Vulgate.[10] The rich man was also given the names Neuēs (i.e. Nineveh)[11] and Fineas (i.e. Phineas)[12] in the 3rd and 4th centuries.[9]

Along with the parables of the Ten Virgins, Prodigal Son, and Good Samaritan, it was one of the most frequently illustrated teachings in medieval art,[13] perhaps because of its vivid account of an afterlife.

The name Lazarus, from the Hebrew: אלעזר, Elʿāzār, Eleazar - "God is my help",[14] also belongs to the more famous biblical character Lazarus of Bethany, known as "Lazarus of the Four Days",[15] who is the subject of a prominent miracle attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus resurrects him four days after his death.[16]

See also

References
  1. Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an Abbreviated Bible Commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
  2. Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
  3. NIV subheading at Luke 16:1, accessed 30 June 2018
  4. Luke 16:16: NKJV
  5. Palmer, D. R., The Gospel of Luke: a Translation From the Greek, February 2018 edition, accessed 1 July 2018
  6. Luke 16:16: ISV
  7. Luke 16:16: NIV
  8. Matthew 11:13: NKJV
  9. Hultgren, Arland J (2002-01-01). The Parables of Jesus: A Commentary. pp. 110–118. ISBN 978-0-8028-6077-4.
  10. "Luke, chapter 16 verse 19". The Bible - Latin Vulgate. The Vatican. Retrieved 16 July 2013. homo quidam erat dives et induebatur purpura et bysso et epulabatur cotidie splendide
  11. The Gospel According to Luke (I-IX). 1995-03-01. p. 1110. ISBN 978-0-385-52247-2.
  12. Fitzmyer IX, Ad populum I (CSEL 18.91), spelled Finees; and in Ps.-Cyprian, De pascha computus 17 (CSEL 3/3.265), spelled Finaeus
  13. Mâle, Émile (1961). The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century. p. 195.
  14. Barclay, William (1999-02-01). The Parables of Jesus. pp. 92–98. ISBN 978-0-664-25828-3.
  15. Gavrilova, L. V., From the History of Artistic Interpretations of the Biblical Story about the Lazarus Resurrection, Journal of Siberian Federal University, Humanities & Social Sciences 1 (2014 7) 20-29, accessed 2 July 2018
  16. Losch, Richard R (2008). All the People in the Bible: An A-z Guide to the Saints, Scoundrels, and Other Characters in Scripture. pp. 255–256. ISBN 978-0-8028-2454-7.
Preceded by
Luke 15		 Chapters of the Bible
Gospel of Luke		 Succeeded by
Luke 17
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