Patristic A.D. 253
“(t. xxxii. 5.) Or thus: All the rest put out their feet, certain that so great a one would not want to wash them without reason: but Peter, looking only to the thing itself, and seeing nothing beyond it, refused out of reverence to let his feet be washed. He often appears in Scripture as hasty in putting forth his own ideas of what is right and expedient.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 13:6-11
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗