25. “ ‘Son,’ Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
26. Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass over from here to you cannot; neither can those from there cross over to us.’
27. “ ‘Father,’ he said, ‘then I beg you to send him to my father’s house —
28. because I have five brothers — to warn them, so they won’t also come to this place of torment.’
29. “But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’
30. “ ‘No, father Abraham,’ he said. ‘But if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
31. “But he told him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.’ ”