| rdfs:comment | - Dives and Lazarus, also called Lazarus and Dives or The Rich Man and the Beggar Lazarus, is one of the stories told by Jesus. Recorded only in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 16:19-31), it tells of the relationship (in life and in death) between an unnamed rich man and a poor beggar named Lazarus. In the text of the Latin Bible, the Vulgate, since the rich man is not named, he is referred to as Dives from dives, the Latin word for rich man. The story has been a favorite for artists and theologians, as it is the most vivid account of an afterlife to be found in the New Testament.
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| abstract | - Dives and Lazarus, also called Lazarus and Dives or The Rich Man and the Beggar Lazarus, is one of the stories told by Jesus. Recorded only in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 16:19-31), it tells of the relationship (in life and in death) between an unnamed rich man and a poor beggar named Lazarus. In the text of the Latin Bible, the Vulgate, since the rich man is not named, he is referred to as Dives from dives, the Latin word for rich man. The story has been a favorite for artists and theologians, as it is the most vivid account of an afterlife to be found in the New Testament. The name Lazarus (from the Hebrew: אלעזר, Elʿāzār, Eleazar - "God (has) helped") is also given to a second, and arguably more famous, figure in the Bible: Lazarus of Bethany, also known as Lazarus of the Four Days. He is the subject of a prominent miracle attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores him to life four days after his death. While the two characters have sometimes been conflated historically, they are generally understood to be two separate characters. Many allusions to Lazarus (particularly those involving the idea of resurrection from the dead) should be understood as referring to the Lazarus described in John, rather than to the poor begger of this story.
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