The Question of John the Baptist and Jesus’ Indictment of the Religious Leaders. Roberto a. Martinez

215. Ibid., 238–40.

216. Ibid., 242.

217. Ibid., 243–45.

218. Ibid., 246–48.

219. Spencer, Rhetorical Texture, 4–5.

220. To explain the rhetorical arrangement of the passage, Spencer (ibid., 101–13) divides its structure into an amplified chreia (7:17–23), quaestio (7:24–26), chreia (7:27), rationale (7:28), digression (7:29–30), statement by analogy (7:31–32), statement by example (7:33–34), and conclusion (7:35). He also highlights the use of irony, ecphrasis, synkrisis, and enthymemes throughout the rhetorical argumentation.

221. Ibid., 103.

222. Ibid., 146–53.

223. Ibid., 149.