although Matthew will not draw the implication that Mark draws from it, he nevertheless does record the statement of Jesus that “not what goes into the mouth defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a person” (15:11), thereby in principle undercutting the dietary law.14 In these instances, of course, it is not a matter of Jesus being disloyal to the law of Moses; rather, it is much more a matter of an incomparable, authoritative interpretation of the law that relativizes the