Does uncleanness come from within or without?
It is not the dust of the street that soils a man, but the evil thoughts of his heart.

Is it unseemly to eat honest bread with dusty hands?
Is it not more unseemly to take away your brother's bread with clean hands ?" The Rabbi considered that it would be foolish to waste more words on this transgressor of the law, and went his way.

But next day he informed the carpenter that he was to stand on the Sabbath behind the poor-box, in order to see whether the well-washed hands of believing Jews took the bread away from their brothers, or, rather, did not bestow it liberally upon them.

And as Jesus stood in the Temple, he observed the well-to-do Nazarenes dip their hands into the basin, with pious air throw large pieces of money into the poor-box, and then look round to see if their good example was observed.

When it grew dark, a poor woman came and with her lean fingers put a farthing into the poor-box.
"Well, what do you say now ?" asked the Rabbi of the carpenter.
Jesus answered: "I think the haughty rich people have washed themselves, and that still they give with unclean hands.