Patristic A.D. 735
“Further, this perfect cure of one man brought large multitudes to the Lord; wherefore it is added, So that he could not any more openly enter into the city, but could only be without in desert places.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 1:40-45
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗