Medieval A.D. 804
“Our Lord heard of the sickness of Lazarus, but suffered four days to pass before He cured it; that the recovery might be a more wonderful one. When He had heard therefore that he was sick, He abode two days still in the place where He was.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 11:6-10
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗