Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. Lxxii. 3) As the disciples were about to go forth and to suffer many things, He consoles them by promising His own assistance and that of others; His own, when He says, Happy are ye if ye do them; that of others, in what follows, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth Me; and he that receiveth Me receiveth Him that sent Me.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 13:12-20
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗