Patristic A.D. 407
“But if His miracles raised their wonder, why did He not work many? Because He looked not to display of Himself, but to what would profit others; and when that did not result, He despised what pertained only to Himself that He might not increase their punishment. Why then did He even these few miracles? That they should not say, We should have believed had any miracles been done among us.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 13:53-58
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗