Graphic Bible · Scene 2 of 4
Luke 12:13-21
The Rich Fool
Watchfulness and True Riches · Luke 12
Story guide: A wealthy landowner studies a simple building plan amid overflowing grain baskets while workers enlarge a mud-brick storehouse. The image portrays the rich fool in Luke 12:13-21.
Open this scene in the reader →13Then someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14But he said to him, “Man, who appointed me a judge or divider over you?”
15Then he said to them, “Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed, because a person’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
16Then he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a certain rich man produced abundantly.”
17And he reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, since I have nowhere to gather my crops?’
18And he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will gather all my grain and my goods.’
19And I will say to my soul, ‘Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years. Rest, eat, drink, be merry.’
20But God said to him, ‘Fool! This very night your life is being demanded back from you, and the things you prepared—whose will they be?’
21So is the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.
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