Joseph stands guard at the door of the stable while Mary rests on a bed of hay beside the babe in the manger. Two shepherds and their sheep are approaching the stable door. Joseph looks as though he is greeting them.
5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.6 And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth.7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
