Patristic A.D. 253
“(tom. xiii. c. 55) The Galilæans were allowed to keep the feast at Jerusalem, where they had seen Jesus. Thus they were prepared to receive Him, when He came: otherwise they would either have rejected Him; or He, knowing their unprepared state, would not have gone near them.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:43-45
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗