Patristic A.D. 735
“(ubi sup.) Could He who was able to restore sight be ignorant of what the blind man wanted? His reason then for asking is that prayer may be made to Him; He puts the question, to stir up the blind man’s heart to pray.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 10:46-52
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗