Patristic A.D. 253
“The governor marvelled at His endurance, as knowing that he had power to condemn Him, He yet continued in a peaceful, placid, and immovable prudence and gravity. He marvelled greatly, for it seemed to him a great miracle that Christ, produced before a criminal tribunal, stood thus fearless of death, which all men think so terrible.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 27:11-14
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗