Patristic A.D. 430
“(Tr. xv. c. 31) Our Lord heard His doubting disciples, and answered them as disciples, i. e. plainly and expressly, not circuitously, as He answered the women; Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:31-34
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗