Patristic A.D. 735
“Not, as it seems to me, in simpleness of heart, but provoked by envy. For in another place also they complain, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, behold the same baptizeth, and all men come unto him. (John 3:26.)”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 7:18-23
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗