Luke 16:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,

Luke 16:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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;
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.
James 1:9
Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
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?
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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 19-31)

As the parable of the prodigal son set before us the grace of the gospel, which is encouraging to us all, so this sets before us the wrath to come, and is designed for our awakening; and very fast asleep those are in sin that will not be awakened by it. The Pharisees made a jest of Christ’s sermon against worldliness; now this parable was intended to make those mockers serious. The tendency of the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20-21. laid--having to be carried and put down. full of sores--open, running, “not closed, nor bound up, nor mollified with ointment” (Is 1:6).