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On the approach of the Passover what did he say to his brethren?
“Go ye up unto this feast; I go not up yet unto this feast” ([John vii, 8]).
The correct reading of the last clause is, “I go not up unto the feast.” The American revisers, to their credit, urged the adoption of this reading; but the Oxford revisers retained the error. In uttering these words, Jesus, if omniscient, uttered an untruth; for John says: “But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret” ([10]).