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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 3:15-17

Patristic A.D. 735

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735

“But how could he answer them who in secret thought that he was Christ, except it was that they not only thought, but also (as another Evangelist declares) sending Priests and Levites to him asked him whether he was the Christ or not?”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 3:15-17 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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