Luke 16:20
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
Luke 16:20 in other translations
| BSB | And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores |
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| WEB | A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores, |
| ASV | and a certain beggar named Lazarus was laid at his gate, full of sores, |
| YLT | and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores, |
| DARBY | And there was a poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his gateway full of sores, |
| BBE | And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds, |
| Webster | And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores, |
What does Luke 16:20 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 16:20-21
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
Named Lazarus. The word Lazarus is Hebrew, and means a man destitute of help, a needy, poor man. It is a name given, therefore, to denote his needy condition.
Laid at his gate. At the door of the rich man, in order that he might obtain aid.
Full of sores. Covered with ulcers; afflicted not only with poverty, but with loathsome and offensive ulcers, such as often are the accompaniments of poverty and want. These circumstances are designed to show how different was his condition from that of the rich man. He was clothed in purple; the poor man was covered with sores; he fared sumptuously; the poor man was dependent even for the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table.
The dogs came. Such was his miserable condition that even the dogs, as if moved by pity, came and licked his sores in kindness to him. These circumstances of his misery are very touching, and his condition, contrasted with that of the rich man, is very striking. It is not affirmed that the rich man was unkind to him, or drove him away, or refused to aid him. The narrative is designed simply to show that the possession of wealth, and all the blessings of this life, could not exempt from death and misery, and that the lowest condition among mortals may be connected with, life and happiness beyond the grave. There was no provision made for the helpless poor in those days, and consequently they were often laid at the gates of the rich, and in places of public resort, for charity. See Acts 3:2. The gospel has been the means of all the public charity now made for the needy, as it has of providing hospitals for those who are sick and afflicted. No pagan nation ever had a hospital or an alms house for the needy, the aged, the blind, the insane. Many heathen nations, as the Hindoos and the Sandwich Islanders, destroyed their aged people; and all left their poor to the miseries of public begging, and their sick to the care of their friends or to private charity.
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 16:19-31
Here the spiritual things are represented, in a description of the different state of good and bad, in this world and in the other. We are not told that the rich man got his estate by fraud, or oppression; but Christ shows, that a man may have a great deal of the wealth, pomp, and pleasure of this world, yet perish for ever under God's wrath and curse. The sin of this rich man was his providing for himself only…
Luke 16:20 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Luke 16:20
- Acts 3:2
And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
- James 2:5
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
- Job 2:7
So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
- 1 Samuel 2:8
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.
- Psalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
- James 1:9
Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
- Luke 16:21
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
- Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
- Luke 18:35-43
And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging: And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant. And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. …
- Psalms 73:14
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
- John 11:1
Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
- Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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Context
- Luke 16:19
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
- Luke 16:20
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
- Luke 16:21
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Luke 16:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Había también un mendigo llamado Lázaro, el cual estaba echado á la puerta de él, lleno de llagas, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et il y avait un pauvre, nommé Lazare, couché à sa porte, tout couvert d’ulcères, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Es war aber ein gewisser Armer, mit Namen Lazarus, der an dessen Tor lag, voller Geschwüre, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et erat quidam mendicus, nomine Lazarus, qui jacebat ad januam ejus, ulceribus plenus, |