Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. xl. 2) I therefore direct you to John, not because I want his testimony, but that ye may be saved: for I have greater witness than that of John, i. e. that of my works; The works which the Father hath given Me to finish, the same works that I do bear witness of Me, that the Father hath sent Me.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 5:31-40
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗