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NASB | John 7:8 "Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 7:8 "Go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come." |
Bible Question: Why was the word, 'yet,' left out of the NASB translation? It has much manuscript support, and without it, it seems to make the Lord a liar. |
Bible Answer: sdee ::: The word 'yet' does appear in John 7:8 in the NASB; however, it appears only once, viz. "Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because my time has not YET fully come." However, the word 'yet' appears twice in the some other versions, e.g. NKJV, which reads: "You go up to this feast. I am not YET going up to this feast, for My time has not YET fully come." These variant readings are explained as follows: The NASB translators in this passage followed the Critical Text, which generally represents the Alexandrian or Egyptian type of text, whereas the NKJV (and KJV) translators followed the traditional text, known today as the Textus Receptus or Received Text, which was largely supported by the Byzantine family of texts, which according to the NKJV translators' preface to that version "has as much right as the Alexandrian or any other tradition to be weighed in determining the text of the New Testament." .... In any event, the sense of John 7:8 is not essentially altered regardless of which text is followed. The sense of the passage is that our Lord told His brothers that he was not going up to the feast because His time had not YET fully come. He did not mean that He would not go to the feast at all. We learn from vs. 10 that He did in fact go. Vs. 10 also teaches us that Jesus went up quietly and with a minimum of publicity: "not publicly, but as it were, in secret." So, Jesus meant that He would not go with His brothers and have a great and public manifestation. It was not time for that. So sometime after His brothers had gone up to Jerusalem, Jesus made a quiet trip there. --Hank |
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