Patristic A.D. 430
“(Tr. cxvi. 8) Pilate still tries to overcome their apprehensions on Cæsar’s account; Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? He tries to shame them into doing what he had not been able to soften them into by putting Christ to shame.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 19:12-16
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗