Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. xvii) He mentions this too for another reason, viz. that as He was relating events which had only recently happened, He might, by a reference to the place, appeal to the testimony of those who were present and saw them.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:24-28
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗