Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. xli. 1) Our Lord having made mention of John, and the witness of God, and His own works, many, who did not see that His motive was to induce them to believe, might suspect Him of a desire for human glory, and therefore He says, I receive not honour from men: i. e. I do not want it. My nature is not such as to want that glory, which cometh from men. For if the Son receives no addition from the light of a candle, much more am not I in want of human glory.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 5:41-47
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗