Patristic A.D. 735
“(ubi sup.) By these words He calls on His Apostles, to break bread for the people, that they might be able to testify that they had no bread, and thus the greatness of the miracle might become more known.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 6:35-44
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗