In Mark 7:19 – did Yeshua really declare all foods clean?
Most Greek Bible versions in Mark 7:18-20 have added the sentence, “Thus Jesus declared all foods clean” (or some form thereof). Example: Mark 7: 18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’? 19 For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods “clean.”) (NIV) Unfortunately, Yeshua never uttered those words! This sentence was added in order to support the Christian idea that today we are allowed to eat anything we want! God was clear from the beginning about what we could and couldn’t eat. Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 provide a list of animals that are not to be eaten as food; and included in this list of “unclean” foods are some of man’s favorites: pork, shrimp, lobster, crab, catfish, squid, rabbit, squirrel, etc. The New Testament, on the other hand, seems to indicate that God changed His mind somewhere along the line, which is absolut
