Does Mark 7:19 declare all foods clean?
InferredNo single verse settles it; the conclusion is assembled across texts and leans one way.
No, not as a direct declaration. The phrase "making all foods clean" in Mark 7:19 is the narrator Mark's editorial aside (not Jesus' own words), spoken within a dispute about hand-washing, not about the Leviticus 11 animal-food categories. Whether it reaches the Leviticus 11 distinctions requires an inference step the text does not state.
The parenthetical "making all foods clean" is a Tier 5 narrator's gloss on a hand-washing dispute; it does not explicitly address the Leviticus 11 clean/unclean animal categories, and no same-or-higher-tier text explicitly revokes those Tier 1 commands.
What scripture leaves unaddressed: Whether any text at the same or higher tier as Leviticus 11 explicitly revokes the clean/unclean animal-food distinctions, and whether those distinctions were ever binding on the nations (Gentiles) who were never under the Sinai covenant, remains unresolved by Mark 7:19 alone.
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