Protevangelium of James 18

1And he found a cave there and brought her into it, and set his sons by her: and he went forth and sought for a midwife of the Hebrews in the country of Bethlehem.

Καὶ εὗρεν σπήλαιον ἐκεῖ καὶ εἰσήγαγεν αὐτήν, καὶ παρέστησεν αὐτῇ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξελθὼν ἐζήτει μαῖαν Ἑβραίαν ἐν χώρᾳ Βηθλεέμ. (10316)

2Now I Joseph was walking, and I walked not. And I looked up to the air and saw the air in amazement. And I looked up unto the pole of the heaven and saw it standing still, and the fowls of the heaven without motion. And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set, and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish: and they that were chewing chewed not, and they that were lifting the food lifted it not, and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto, but the faces of all of them were looking upward. And behold there were sheep being driven, and they went not forward but stood still; and the shepherd lifted his hand to smite them with his staff, and his hand remained up. And I looked upon the stream of the river and saw the mouths of the kids upon the water and they drank not. And of a sudden all things moved onward in their course.

Ἐγὼ δὲ Ἰωσὴφ περιεπάτουν, καὶ οὐ περιεπάτουν· καὶ ἀνέβλεψα εἰς τὸν ἀέρα, καὶ εἶδον τὸν ἀέρα ἔκθαμβον· καὶ ἀνέβλεψα εἰς τὸν πόλον τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ εἶδον αὐτὸν ἑστῶτα καὶ τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἠρεμοῦντα· καὶ ἐπέβλεψα ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ εἶδον σκάφην κειμένην καὶ ἐργάτας ἀνακειμένους, καὶ αἱ χεῖρες αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ σκάφῃ· καὶ οἱ μασσώμενοι οὐκ ἐμασσῶντο, καὶ οἱ αἴροντες οὐκ ἀνέφερον, καὶ οἱ προσφέροντες τῷ στόματι αὐτῶν οὐ προσέφερον, ἀλλὰ πάντων ἦν τὰ πρόσωπα ἄνω βλέποντα· καὶ ἰδοὺ πρόβατα ἐλαυνόμενα ἦν, καὶ οὐ προέβαινον ἀλλ᾽ ἵσταντο, καὶ ἐπῆρεν ὁ ποιμὴν τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ τοῦ πατάξαι αὐτὰ ἐν τῇ ῥάβδῳ, καὶ ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ ἔστη ἄνω· καὶ ἐπέβλεψα ἐπὶ τὸν χείμαρρον τοῦ ποταμοῦ, καὶ εἶδον τὰ στόματα τῶν ἐρίφων ἐπικείμενα καὶ μὴ πίνοντα, καὶ πάντα ὑπὸ θῆξιν τῷ δρόμῳ αὐτῶν ἀπηλαύνοντο. (70045)