Patristic A.D. 407
“It should be considered that sometimes the Lord goes about to heal the sick, sometimes He sits and waits for them to come; and accordingly here it is added, And there came great multitudes unto him, having with them those that were dumb, lame, blind, maimed, and many others.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 15:29-31
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗