Mark 7:18-19 Explained - Jesus declared all foods clean (in the NIV)

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[BestIsntEasy]

🚨 Mark 7:15-18 Living Bible
15-16 [a]Your souls aren’t harmed by what you eat, but by what you think and say!”*

17 Then he went into a house to get away from the crowds, and his disciples asked him what he meant by the statement he had just made.

18 “Don’t you understand either?” he asked. “Can’t you see that what you eat 👉 won’t harm your soul? 👈 💥🗝 SOUL 🗝💥

Matthew 15:11 Living Bible
11 You aren’t made unholy by eating nonkosher food! It is what you say and think that makes you unclean.”

[ronniemann]

Even if It does say that He thus rendered all foods clean, pork and shellfish were _never_ considered foods. To include them in the narrative would be an assumption via a westernized mindset per it's accepted diet.

[loyallyfe]

Notice that when Jesus talked, he talked in a way that covered everything on that particular topic because the Pharisees and unbelievers always tried to rebuttal. Instead of going tit for tat, Jesus would get down to the root of the matter often times leaving the scoffers speechless with no rebuttals. Here in Mark 7 it's not about unwashed hands, it's about UNCLEAN hands. The Pharisees carried on a tradition of washing their hands because they thought to eat with UNCLEAN hands that could possibly have dirt, bacteria, diseases on them etc would defile them. Jesus clearly said (paraphrasing) that NOTHING that enters a man's mouth can defile his heart (spirit). Meaning that ANYTHING you eat will not cause you to commit a sin against God or your neighbor. But on the other hand, murder, lying, stealing, idolatry, sexual immorality etc...are the things that defile the spirit.

It's simple

[mr.e]

This did not necessarily mean that we can eat with Muddy hands and that Jesus lived a nun kempt life and ate food with dirty fingers. He was condemning the ceremonial Washings that the Pharisees added to the law. Just want to let you know that Jesus was a very clean person outwardly and inwardly and he would not have eaten with dirty hands either. Is rebuking a ceremonial washing.

[Earthweep]

The main thing that bothers me about what Jesus said in Mark 7:18-19 is not what Jesus said in verse 18, but what he said in verse 19. Here are both together in the Berean Literal Bible: 18 And He says to them, “Thus are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything entering into the man from outside is not able to defile him, 19 because it does not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the sewer?” Jesus seems to be saying here that 100% of everything you swallow will simply go into your stomach, then into your intestines, and then be expelled into the toilet. He emphasizes that idea by saying that none of what you swallow will ever get into your heart.

But if this were true, we would all quickly die of thirst and starvation. On the contrary, much of what we swallow is absorbed through the lining of the stomach and intestines into the blood stream. Of course, much of it will be chemically altered by processes of digestion before it is absorbed into the body. And once it is in the blood, it will be carried to all parts of the body, including the heart. For example, after you drink a can of beer, within just a few minutes much of the alcohol in the beer will have entered your bloodstream, and pass through your heart. The fact is that we eat and drink to nourish our bodies. So if none of what we ate or drank entered the bloodstream (and thus the heart), our bodies could not be nourished. It makes me wonder whether Jesus really said the strange words attributed to him in Mark 7:18-19.

[buccaneersxiong]

Christians are scared to walk the real path of Jesus! Jesus told us to respect all living things humans and animals

[ErikTheCooky]

so why does it say "purging all meats?" meaning cleansing all meats.. at the end of verse 19, in Mark 7 KJV.

[Adam-ozvm]

Hey there, nice explanation. May I have the name of the person and what is his background religiously? ( I do not mean this in a bad way)

Kindly also guide me towards the verse he is talking about in Acts 10.

Thanks. Have a good day!