Are You Just Not Getting It

The work on the temple had stopped. It wasn't that they were taking a day off but they seem to have abandoned it all together. Instead they were focusing on their own houses. Things didnt seem to be going well and they couldnt figure it out.
Well, here we find the idea that the clean doesnt make unclean things clean. But unclean things to make clean things unclean. So the message was....if you are unclean then everything you touch will become unclean.