JOSAPHAT
I warned thee, Rabbi!
AMASAI
[With a laugh of scorn.] Now see, all of you. See! Methinks the great---- [Breaks off as a woman, sickly and heavily loaded, comes accidentally near to him. He turns round in anger.] Touch me not, lest I become unclean! I am a Rechabite!
SIMON THE GALILEAN
[To the woman.] No; touch him not, lest thou becomest unclean.
AMASAI
What?
SIMON THE GALILEAN
For the Pharisees who call themselves Rechabites are unclean from within. Come! [Leads her to the fountain.]