As read by most commentators, Mark 7 establishes

DB107/108
the
beginning of
the so-called parting
of the ways between Judaism & Christianity.

This is because, according to the traditional interpretation & virtually all modern scholarly ones,
in this chapter Yesh declares a major aspect of the Torah's laws, the laws of kashrut {keeping kosher}, no longer valid,
thus representing a major rupture with the beliefs & practices of virtually all other Jews, pharisaic or not.

The representatives of what are arguably the three most central & important scholarly biblical commentary series in the USA, ranging from the Word series for evangelical scholars to the Anchor Bible for the non-confessional & more general (but advanced) audience & then to the very scholarly & secular Hermeneia ~ which, taken together, represent the closest thing we have to an authoritative modern reading of the passage ~ all agree on this in their commentaries on Mark 7, even while disagreeing on much else.

Thus Adela Yarbro Collins, in her Hermeneia commentary, writes of verse 19 ("& thus he purified all foods"knipoog, "THE COMMENT OF V. 19c [third clause of v. 19] TAKES A GIANT STEP FURTHER AND IMPLIES, AT THE VERY LEAST, THAT THE OBSERVANCE OF THE FOOD LAWS FOR THE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS IS NOT OBLIGATORY!" It should be emphasized that AJC does not consider this necessarily
the meaning of Jesus' original pronouncement at v. 15, but she does so read
v. 19, which is a gloss by the EUANGELIST Mark,
thus rendering Mark (like Paul/SP) the beginning
of the end of the Law
for Christians
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