Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. lxxxiv. 2) But how can ye prove this? By His purple, His diadem, His chariot, His guards? Did He not walk about with His twelve disciples only, and every thing mean about Him, food, dress, and habitation?”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 19:12-16
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗