when the context consumes the point

Watch out that the context is not used to negate the point. Whenever someone makes a point you want to smooth over and loosen the strength of the argument illustrated by the point, there is one place to go, and that is the context. The context is often used to gloss over the point and redirect it somewhere else other than the point itself. The context harnesses the point to ostensibly highlight the true point that was not evident in the point, but in the context. Any intense emphasis on the context to the lack of emphasis of the point can do all this with impunity for many. However, I am taking the stand that when it comes to Jesus the point is the emphasis to begin with and that the context is designed to either strengthen the point or merely bring pure gingerbread to set off the point. Therefore I would maintain that Jesus' utterance is the point and He is the context out of which the point rises.