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This is Mark 7:19 from the NIV:
For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
Every time I see a parenthetical note in an ancient text, I feel like it was a later addition from a scribe.
Does our oldest manuscripts contain that part of the verse? Even it does, is there any reason to believe that it was a later addition?
Brian Roden
I searched in Logos, and there were no footnotes indicating textual variants. Rather, this seems to be Mark’s own explanatory comment inserted into the middle of Jesus’ discourse.
The concluding sentence of verse 19 is an editorial comment by Mark (cf. 2:10, 28; 3:30; 13:14), to emphasize the significance of Jesus’ statement for his Christian readers in Rome, some of whom may have been confused over Jewish food laws (cf. Rom. 14:14; Gal. 2:11–17; Col. 2:20–22). He simply pointed out that Jesus declared all foods “clean” for Christians. The early church was slow to grasp this truth (cf. Acts 10; 15).
Grassmick, J. D. (1985). Mark. In J. F. Walvoord & R. B. Zuck (Eds.), The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures (Vol. 2, p. 134). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
Philip Williams
Only if one is a neo-Judaizer and despises the truth.
Varnel Watson
why would you say that Philip Williams
Philip Williams
Troy Day zero textual evidence of it being added. But a motive of wanting to believe that by those neither-Judaizers who deny that the Old Covenant ended with Christ’s death.
Varnel Watson
Philip Williams I think you didnt even read the post
Varnel Watson
BTW Philip Williams I find your luck of argument under this post unsubstantiated Surely you can come up with a better way of expression when it comes down to text criticism