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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 1, 20. Of the Miracles and the Passion of Christ
Our Lord and God Jesus Christ preached repentance, bestowed the grace of baptism, promised the heavenly kingdom to all nations, and wrought signs and wonders among the peoples. He brought forth wine, namely, from water, quenched fevers, gave sight to the blind, restored life to those that were buried, set free those possessed by unclean spirits, made whole lepers squalid with the miserable disease of their skin. While He wrought these and many other miracles, He manifestly declared His godhead to the peoples, till the Jews were inflamed to wrath and excited to envy; thus did the minds of a race fed on the blood of the prophets now unjustly strive to destroy the just. Therefore, that the oracles of the prophets of old might be fulfilled, He was betrayed by His own disciple, wickedly condemned by the high priests, mocked by the Jews, and crucified with malefactors; His body, when the breath was gone out, was guarded by soldiers. When these things were done, there came to pass darkness over all the earth, and many were converted with groans, confessing Jesus the Son of God.