And then a woman who was coming down from the mountain said to me: 'Where are you going?' To which I answered: 'I am looking for a Hebrew midwife.' She replied: 'And who is it that is giving birth in the cave?' 'She is my wife,' I said to her.
2Upon arriving at the grotto, they stopped, and behold it was overshadowed by a luminous cloud. And the midwife exclaimed: 'My soul has been magnified, because my eyes have seen incredible things, for the salvation of Israel has been born.'
3Suddenly, the cloud began to withdraw from the grotto, and inside there shone a light so great that our eyes could not bear it. This, for a moment, began to diminish so much that we could see the child who was taking the breast of his mother, Mary.
4The midwife then gave a cry saying: 'Great is this day for me, since I have been able to see with my own eyes a new miracle.'