Then the disciples came to Him. _Then._ When? When these things were taking place, and the betrayal was effected, and Judas destroyed himself, the disciples came to Him, saying, _Where wilt Thou that we prepare to eat the Pasch_? Mark you the difference between disciple and disciples? The one betrays his Lord, the others busy themselves with preparing the Pasch; the one makes a bargain, the others minister for His table: both the one and the others had enjoyed the same miracles, the same teaching, the same authority. Now, how do they differ? In the will: this is everywhere the cause, both of all good and all evil. _Where wilt Thou that we prepare to eat the Pasch?_ _Then_ was that same evening. As Our Lord had no house of His own, they said to Him, _Where wilt Thou that we prepare to eat the Pasch?_ We have no settled dwelling-place, neither tent nor house. Let those who dwell in splendid houses, and spacious courts, and large precincts be taught that Christ had not where to lay His head. Therefore they asked, _Where wilt Thou that we prepare to eat the Pasch?_ What Pasch? This was not our Pasch, but still the Jews’ Pasch; it was this Jewish Pasch which _they_ prepared; Our Lord Himself prepared ours. Not only did He prepare it Himself, but He became our Pasch. _Where wilt Thou that we prepare for Thee to eat the Pasch?_ This was the Jewish Pasch which had begun in Egypt. Now, why did Christ partake of it? Because He accomplished all the observances of the law. At His baptism He said: _Thus it becomes us to fulfil all justice_. I came to redeem man from the malediction of the law. For God sent His own Son, made of woman, made under the law, that He might redeem those who were bound by it, and might put an end to the law. Now, to prevent anyone from saying that He abolished the law because He was unable to fulfil it, as being burdensome, and hard, and oppressive, having first Himself carried it out, He then dissolved it. On this account He held the Pasch also, for the Pasch was an ordinance of the law. And why did the law order the eating of the Pasch? The Jews were ungrateful towards their benefactor, and so immediately after the benefits they forgot God’s precepts. When they came out of Egypt, and saw the waters parted, and again closed, and a thousand other wonders, they said, _Let us make to ourselves gods who may go before us_. What say you? You still touch the wonders with your hands, and have you forgotten the benefactor? Since, therefore, they were thus without feeling or understanding, God kept alive the memory of His gifts by the ordinance of feasts, and He commanded the Pasch to be sacrificed, so that if your son ask you, ‘What is this Pasch?’ you may answer, ‘Our forefathers in Egypt sprinkled their doors with the blood of the lamb, lest the angel of destruction, when he came, should enter in and smite with the plague’. Thus the feast was a perpetual memorial of salvation.