Patristic A.D. 735
“(in Matt. c. xiv.) He does not say, I am Jesus, but only I am. He trusts to their easily recognising a voice, which was so familiar to them, or, as is more probable, He shews that He was the same who said to Moses, I am that I am (Exod. 3:14)”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:15-21
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗