Most people do not like conflict. They prefer that things be consistent even those things are not true or even if those things are not based in reality.

In the church that follows the "Love your neighbor" rule but omits the "Love your God" rule, the "teamwork" as in "better together" is often of the nature of "namby-pamby consensus and bogus good cheer". A "false prophet" is a prophet who tells the boss, and others, what they want to hear.

To see real teamwork, in the McCarthy sense, one can read the accounts of the true prophets, not one of which had not been killed - as related by Jesus. Matthew 33:6 uses the ancient Greek word "φιλουσιν" ≈ "love" from which we get the word "philo" as in "philosophy" or "Philadelphia".

Luke 11:43 uses the ancient Greek word "αγάπη" ≈ "love" from which we get the word "agape".

Some people want to make a big theological distinction between them while others, using the above verses as one example, consider them more or less having the same meaning.

Details are left as a future topic.

John uses the Greek word for "agape" to describe men.

The lawyers try to distance themselves from the religious leaders.

Some jokes about lawyers relate to the following.

• Don't expect to get into heaven without Jesus as your advocate. You cannot get a lawyer there because there are no lawyers anywhere near heaven.
• Don't expect to stay out of hell by getting a lawyer there. There are plenty of lawyers there but they all work for Satan.
• (fill in your favorite lawyer joke here)

Jesus points out the hypocritical behavior of the lawyers but, again, does not use the word "hypocrite" (in the Greek) because that word did not have that meaning at that time.

Throughout history, those who were killed or vilified at the time were later extolled and honored - after they were dead - with monuments, etc.

Something similar happens to artists whose art was not appreciated until long after they passed away.