remembered in a particular way. As an illustration, we may consider again the issue of dietary laws. We know that one of the biggest controversies in first-century Christianity concerned the question of whether Christians were expected to obey traditional Jewish restrictions regarding certain foods (such as pork). When Mark records the teaching of Jesus on a related topic—what constitutes true defilement (7:14–23)—he does so in a way that indicates that Jesus “declared all foods clean” (7:19). It