When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
By the Apostle John, who says that "already many false prophets are gone out into the world "the fore-runners of Antichrist, who deny that Christ is come in the flesh.
Withal, issued any such proclamation in favour of sinners; as when He permitted contact even with his own body to the "woman, a sinner"-washing, as she did, His feet with tears, and wiping them with her hair, and inaugurating His sepulture with ointment; as when to the Samaritaness-not an adulteress by her now sixth marriage, but a prostitute-He showed (what He did show readily to any one) who He was;
