Jesus didn’t die so you could eat pork

Ajouté : 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Jesus did not die on the cross so you could eat pork. And if that's news to you, you've been lied to your whole life. When Jesus said in Mark 7 that nothing that enters a man can defile him, was he abolishing God's food laws and giving mankind permission to eat anything? Because if that's true, it directly contradicts Matthew 5 where he said, "Not one jot or tit would pass from the law until heaven and earth pass away, and that anyone teaching against even the least commandment would be called least in the kingdom." Yet many people read Mark 7 as Jesus abolishing the dietary instructions in one sentence. But that is not what is happening. In Mark 7, the Pharisees confront Yeshua because his disciples were eating bread with unwashed hands.

[00:00:38]Notice carefully, the issue was never pork, shellfish, or unclean animals. The issue was ceremonial handwashing according to the tradition of the elders. This passage is not about overturning God's commandments. It is about overturning man-made traditions that were interfering with God's commandments. Jesus even rebukes the Pharisees for setting aside the commandments of God in order to keep the traditions of men. So, are we really supposed to believe Jesus rebuked them for setting aside God's commandments only to abolish them himself a few verses later? That makes no sense. The Pharisees believed eating bread without ritual handwashing spiritually defiled a person and made the food unclean. So Yeshua responds by saying, "Nothing entering a man from the outside can defile him." Again, the context is eating bread with unwashed hands, not eating unclean animals. Then some Bible versions at thus Jesus declared all foods clean. But this is not a direct quote from Yeshua. It is an interpretive insertion by translators. There is another major problem with that interpretation. In the first century, food already meant what God defined as edible in the Torah. Unclean animals were not considered food in Jewish thought. So what is Jesus actually saying? He is saying that food God already declared clean does not become spiritually defiled simply because someone ate it with unwashed hands.

[00:01:51]Their traditions could not override what God had already declared clean. Jesus was not redefining food or overturning his commandments. This is why Peter says in Acts 10 over a decade later, "I have never eaten anything common or unclean."

[00:02:03]Peter never got the memo because that is not what Jesus meant in Mark 7. If you want to learn more about the Hebraic context of scripture, make sure to follow