John 19:35

And he that saw it bares record, and his record is true: and he knows that he says the truth, that you might believe.
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Cornelius a Lapide

AD 1637
And he that saw it bare record. Probably John himself, who speaks of himself unassumingly in the third person.

John Chrysostom

AD 407
That is, I heard it not from others, but was myself present and saw it, and the testimony is true. As may be supposed. For he relates an insult done; he relates not anything great and admirable, that you should suspect his narrative; but securing the mouths of heretics, and loudly proclaiming beforehand the Mysteries that should be, and beholding the treasure laid up in them, he is very exact concerning what took place. And that prophecy also is fulfilled,

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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