Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. lxxxiii) He then tries to bring round the mind of Pilate, not a very bad man, by proving to him, that He is not a mere man, but God, and the Son of God; and overthrowing all suspicion of His having aimed at a tyranny, which Pilate was afraid of, Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 18:33-38
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗