Introduction
Did you know that if you use the NASB, NIV, CSB, ESV, AMP, ASV that your bibles call Jesus a liar, and therefore a sinner? In the following article I will show you the correct version of John 7:8 in the King James Bible. Then I will demonstrate how the modern bibles make Jesus a liar in that very same verse.
The Correct Way
First, this is the proper verse in the KJB.
(John 7:8 KJB) "Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come."
Take particular notice that Jesus said he's not YET going. That means he will come later and that's exactly what he did. Notice two verses later he came to the feast:
(John 7:10 KJB) " But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret."
So Jesus says he will not come up to the feast just yet, but then later he goes to the feast. Everything is consistent in the KJB. Jesus is not a liar.
Jesus A Liar?
Now here is that same verse in those modern bibles I listed above:
John 7:8(ESV) "You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come."
Notice that in the ESV, and many other modern bibles, Jesus categorically says he's not going to the feast. We know later in the Bible that he actually did go to the feast. So this verse makes Jesus into a liar, which of course goes against other scripture that says Jesus was sinless.
(2 Corinthians 5:21 KJB) "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."
Conclusion
How could anyone read this post and still use a modern bible when they call Jesus a liar? Swallow your pride, even if you've been using a modern bible for decades, and think about what your bible is doing to our blessed Lord and Saviour by calling him a liar. That is wicked and attacks one of the major doctrines of Christianity that Jesus never sinned.
This is also another example of how subtil the devil is. He changes just one little word and it turns Jesus from a perfect, never sinned person into the rest of us wretched sinners. Don't be deceived! This is how the devil works.
(Genesis 3:1) "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?"
I want you to realize I am not trying to attack anyone here. I'm not saying you aren't saved or anything like that. That's between you and God. I just want every single Christian to read God's word so they can know without any doubt what God's will.
I know tremendous brothers in Christ that read the modern bibles for years before they were shown by God the error of their ways and switched to God's inerrant, infallible, perfect word , the King James Bible. They swallowed their pride and so can you.
Search out the issue for yourselves. There is no shortage of material on all the corruptions of every single modern bible. I find the the most glaring ones and try to present them to you for your consideration. I hope this can be a blessing to you.
How To Get Saved
If you are not saved yet by Jesus Christ for all of eternity, God wants you to know that you can be. It doesn't matter who you are or what you've done. God loves us so much he gave his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins on the cross even though we don't even deserve it. He was then buried for 3 days, and then gloriously resurrected 3 days later.
This is what the Bible says about how you can be saved:
(Acts 16:30-31) "And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? {31} And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."
If you want to know more about salvation and how to live a victorious Christian life after you get saved, I have a salvation guide on profile or here: