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All the publicans and sinners (pantes hoi telōnai kai hoi hamartōloi). The two articles separate the two classes (all the publicans and the sinners). They are sometimes grouped together (Luk 5:30; Mat 9:11), but not here. The publicans are put on the same level with the outcasts or sinners. So in Luk 14:2 the repeated article separates Pharisees and scribes as not quite one. The use of “all” here may be hyperbole for very many or the reference may be to these two classes in the particular place where Jesus was from time to time.
Were drawing near unto him (ēsan autōi eggizontes). Periphrastic imperfect of eggizō, from eggus (near), late verb.
For to hear (akouein). Just the present active infinitive of purpose.