Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. lxxxv) The Jews who strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel, after their audacious wickedness, reason scrupulously about the day: The Jews therefore because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 19:31-37
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗