Patristic A.D. 407
“As the Lord sent the multitudes away after the miracle of the five loaves, so also now, not on foot, but by boat, that the multitudes may not follow Him; And he sent away the multitude, and entered into a ship, and came into the coasts of Magedan.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 15:39-16:4
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗