Patristic A.D. 407
“(non occ.) For the leper every where proclaimed his wonderful cure, so that all ran to see and to believe on the Healer; thus the Lord could not preach the Gospel, but walked in desert places; wherefore there follows, And they came together to him from all places.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 1:40-45
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗