ABSTRACT
Bethlehem is a city but is not at all large, so that it has only one street. And from Bethlehem it is two leagues to Jerusalem. Between Bethlehem and Jerusalem there is a church in which there are Greek monks, which is called Glory to God in the Highest. It was there that the angels sang to Him when Jesus Christ was born. Between Jericho and Jerusalem there is a place, which is called the Red Cistern. He spoke to them of this when someone asked Him which was the greatest commandment of the law. And He said to them, 'to love God above all else, and one's neighbour as oneself'. Jerusalem is no longer neither in the place where it was when Jesus Christ was crucified, nor in that where did He rise again from death to life. For when Jesus Christ was on earth, the city was on Mount Sion; but it is not there anymore.
