So great an evil is envy. For not against strangers only, but even against our own, is it ever warring.
-St. John Chrysostom, Homily 40 on Matthew 12, 4th Century


And yet here He speaks only; whereas elsewhere in many cases He heals by laying on of hands also. But nevertheless none of these things made them meek; rather, while the man was healed, they by his health became worse. For His desire indeed was to cure them before him, and He tried innumerable ways of healing, both by what He did in their presence, and by what He said: but since their malady after all was incurable, He proceeded to the work.
-St. John Chrysostom, Homily 40 on Matthew 12, 4th Century