Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. lxii. 2.) Martha does not take her sister with her, because she wants to speak with Christ alone, and tell Him what has happened. When her hopes had been raised by Him, then she went her way, and called Mary.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 11:17-27
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗