Quotes about Pretext

A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”

He answered, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul to the Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of acquiring more information about him.

In his book The Indelible Image, New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III reiterates a common piece of interpretive wisdom: "A text without a context is just a pretext for what we want it to mean.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

Take a text out of context, and you make it a pretext.