Patristic A.D. 253
“(t. xxxii. 19.) As if He said, I say it to you, but with the addition of now. The Jews, who He foresaw would die in their sins, would never be able to follow Him; but the disciples were unable only for a little time.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 13:33-35
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗