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Does Mark 7:19 declare all foods clean?

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No 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.

Key texts:
Mark 7:1-5Tier 5 · Other
Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found
Mark 7:14-23Tier 2 · Jesus
He called all the multitude to himself and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. There is nothing from outside of the man that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed
Mark 7:19Tier 2 · Jesus
οτι ουκ εισπορευεται αυτου εις την καρδιαν αλλ εις την κοιλιαν και εις τον αφεδρωνα εκπορευεται καθαριζον παντα τα βρωματα

…and 12 more verses weighed in the full analysis.

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Original-language words behind this answer:
sheqets (Hebrew H8263)kolláō (Greek G2853)gannâh (Hebrew H1593)éxōthen (Greek G1855)thýō (Greek G2380)koinóō (Greek G2840)epístamai (Greek G1987)oudépote (Greek G3763)brōma (Greek G1033)proskaléomai (Greek G4341)

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