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Origen — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:43-45

Patristic A.D. 253
Origen · c. A.D. 184–253
“(tom. xiii. c. 55) The Galilæans were allowed to keep the feast at Jerusalem, where they had seen Jesus. Thus they were prepared to receive Him, when He came: otherwise they would either have rejected Him; or He, knowing their unprepared state, would not have gone near them.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:43-45 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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