Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. lxxiv. 2) He says, I will ask the Father, to make them believe Him: which they could not have done, had He simply said, I will send.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 14:15-17
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗