Mark 7:18-19

7:18 He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him? 7:19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” ¹  (This means all foods are clean.) ² 

John 6:27

6:27 Do not work for the food that disappears, ³  but for the food that remains to eternal life – the food ⁴  which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.” ⁵ 

John 6:1

The Feeding of the Five Thousand

6:1 After this ⁶  Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias). ⁷ 

Colossians 1:13

1:13 He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves, ⁸ 

¹ tn Or “into the latrine.”

² sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

³ tn Or “perishes” (this might refer to spoiling, but is more focused on the temporary nature of this kind of food).

⁴ tn The referent (the food) has been specified for clarity by repeating the word “food” from the previous clause.

⁵ tn Grk “on this one.”

⁶ tn Again, μετὰ ταῦτα (meta tauta) is a vague temporal reference. How Jesus got from Jerusalem to Galilee is not explained, which has led many scholars (e.g., Bernard, Bultmann, and Schnackenburg) to posit either editorial redaction or some sort of rearrangement or dislocation of material (such as reversing the order of chaps. 5 and 6, for example). Such a rearrangement of the material would give a simple and consistent connection of events, but in the absence of all external evidence it does not seem to be supportable. R. E. Brown (John [AB], 1:236) says that such an arrangement is attractive in some ways but not compelling, and that no rearrangement can solve all the geographical and chronological problems in John.

⁷ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author. Only John in the New Testament refers to the Sea of Galilee by the name Sea of Tiberias (see also John 21:1), but this is correct local usage. In the mid-20’s Herod completed the building of the town of Tiberias on the southwestern shore of the lake; after this time the name came into use for the lake itself.

⁸ tn Here αὐτοῦ (autou) has been translated as a subjective genitive (“he loves”).