3 Jesus replied saying: There once was a man with two sons, and whose wife was great with child. The first son, being of age, departed from his father’s home to become learned and gain wisdom so that he may too be the father of a family.

4 However, while the son did sleep in his bed, a thief did enter the man’s home. And after taking all that the son did own, the thief did also take the son’s life. And his father did have one son.

5 And while the father did mourn, the youngest son sought refuge and solace from his father’s pain, and did travel to the great mount upon his father’s land. And as the boy climbed, a great rain overtook the land, and the boy did lose his way. After many days and nights, the boy was lost to his father. And he had no sons.

6 The man cried to the heavens, saying, “O Lord, I pray for the son my wife carries, lest I should lose him also, and be a father no more.”

7 And it came to pass that the man’s wife was afflicted with many years, yea, even so many that she had not the strength to conceive, and did perish while laboring over the man’s last child. And the father had no sons. And the husband had no wife.

8 And the man did mourn greatly for his loss, and did weep and wail exceedingly. And he did pray to the Lord for peace. And he did drink. But the man’s grief stayed, yea, his sorrow did grow exceedingly each day.

9 And when the man’s neighbor found him, the man had used the great river to end his life, so great was the sorrow in his heart.

10 And Jesus asked his disciples which of these souls did enter the kingdom of heaven. And the man replied, “All souls, my Lord.”

11 But Jesus replied, “All except the last shall enter the kingdom of heaven. For the Lord God cannot accept sinners with the least degree of allowance. And verily, the father did sin exceedingly. Wherefore, if ye have selfish desires in your own hearts, yea even selfish desires born of grief and sorrow, ye can never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

12 The disciples murmured exceedingly, and one man asked, “But Lord, was not this sin born of illness? Of great disease of the heart and mind?”

13 Jesus replied, “Yea. He who suffers this great illness, even this depression, is encircled by mine angels. But have ye forgotten my commandments, yea even those Moses brought down from the mountain, yea even that which commands that ye shall not kill? Verily I say unto you, to kill oneself is to sin in the eyes of God. And he that sinneth shall be rebuked by the Lord God.”