Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. xxii. 2) Or thus; It might be said that the guests were drunken, and could not, in the confusion of their senses, tell whether it were water or wine. But this objection could not be brought against the attendants, who must have been sober, being occupied wholly in performing the duties of their service gracefully and in order. Our Lord therefore bid the attendants bear unto the governor of the feast; who again would of course be perfectly sober. He did not say, Give to the guests to drink.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 2:5-11
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗