Re: An after thought

I think what you both are saying is true, but the wealth in this parable isn't worldly goods. It's the word of God.

God told Abraham,
Gen. 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thu hast obeyed my voice.

Luke 16:15 shows that Jesus was talking to the Pharisees. To tell them they would be rejected by Abraham was a big deal to them.

They thought of themselves as the children of Abraham.

John 8:39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them,
If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

They also thought that a person was well off because they were right with God, and a person that was poor and sick was a sinner.

John 9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?