“And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:”
Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, listen to me, everyone, and understand this — the teaching shifts from the private confrontation with the Pharisees (verses 1–13) to a public declaration to the crowd. The listen to me, everyone is the public summons to the teaching that will follow. The understand this communicates that what follows requires more than hearing — it requires comprehension of a principle that runs counter to deeply held assumptions about purity.
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