The Miriam Webster dictionary states that the word flatter means, “To praise excessively especially from motives of self-interest”. Today there are many people in our world who use flattery to gain favor socially, to enlarge their power over others, to infiltrate religious groups, or procure dis-honest business adventures which include preying on the naïve and unsuspecting. Usually a person that flatters wants something from the one they are flattering. When Jesus was teaching in the temple, the high priest and…..