Rich man and Lazarus Rich man and Lazarus The parable of the rich man and Lazarus (also called the Dives and Lazarus or Lazarus and Dives) is a well-known parable of Jesus appearing in the Gospel of Luke. The Gospel of Luke () tells of the relationship, during life and after 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", "dives", in the text of the Latin Bible, the Vulgate. The rich man was also given the names "Neuēs" (i.e. Nineveh) and "Fineas" (i.e. Phineas)
Jesus (name) Jesus (name) Jesus (IPA: ) is a masculine given name derived from the name Iēsous (Greek: ), the Greek form of the Hebrew name Yeshua (Hebrew: ). As its roots lie in the name Yeshua, it is etymologically related to another biblical name, Joshua. "Jesus" remains extremely rare as a given name among the English-speaking world, even while it has had longstanding popularity among people with other language background, such as the Spanish Jesús or the Arabic Isa. The name Jesus is a Greco-Roman derivation of the Hebrew name Yeshua, which is based on the Semitic root "y-š-ʕ" (Hebrew: ),