Luke 16:29

‘But Abraham says, “They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them.” '

Abraham points him, and all who hear, to Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them. They are the means by which God speaks to the world. No reference is made to Jesus. The poignant emphasis is on the fact that the Pharisees, who claimed to honour Moses and the prophets, did not in fact even listen to them (see Luke 16:15). They had actually shielded themselves from them by their tradition. For had they listened to their deeper voice they would have known the truth about riches. Even more so would they know about them if they heeded the approach of the Kingly Rule of God which has now come (Luke 16:16).

For what the Law and the Prophets had to say consider the following, (Deuteronomy 15:1; Deuteronomy 15:7; Deuteronomy 22:1; Deuteronomy 23:19; Deuteronomy 24:7; Deuteronomy 24:14; Deuteronomy 24:19; Deuteronomy 25:13; Isaiah 3:14; Isaiah 5:7; Isaiah 10:1; Isaiah 32:6; Isaiah 58:3; Isaiah 58:6; Isaiah 58:10; Jeremiah 5:26; Jeremiah 7:5; Ezekiel 18:12; Ezekiel 33:15; Amos 2:6; Amos 5:11; Amos 8:4; Micah 2:1; Micah 3:1; Micah 6:10; Zechariah 7:9; Malachi 3:5). Their message was clear enough.