Luke 16:31

If they hear not. See on v. 30. Those who are not impressed by the plain statement of eternal truth to be found in Scripture would not be more favorably impressed by the greatest of miracles. A few weeks after narrating this parable Jesus raised from the dead a man named Lazarus, as if in response to the challenge of the Jewish leaders for greater evidence than they had heretofore. But that very miracle led the leaders of the nation to intensify their plot against Jesus’ life (see on John 11:47-54). Not only so; they felt it necessary to do away with Lazarus in order to safeguard their own untenable position (see John 12:9, 10; DA 588). The Jews thus gave a literal demonstration of the truth of Jesus’ statement here, that those who reject the OT would reject “greater” light, even the testimony of one who “rose from the dead.”