[Matthew 16:20 KJV] "Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ."
[Matthew 16:20 ESV] "Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ."
The ESV and other Bibles don't have Jesus in this verse
ESV and other modern versions contain considerable bias and outright inventions. I recommend reading the NKJV. It is not a perfect translation, but it is perhaps the best available. ALL modern bibles contain deliberate mistranslation that is used to make a religion out of the good news of Jesus for sinners, where no religion is intended. Here are some examples:
TRANSLATIONERRORS IN MODERN BIBLES
Gospel - correctly translated as "good news" from the Greek.
Church – “assembly”.
Apostle – “sent one”, such as Paul and Peter the “sent ones”. Paul calls other people “sent ones” besides the twelve, including a woman.
Deacon - "servant".
Bishop - "overseer” or “elder".
Pastor– "shepherd". Shepherds did not preach sermons and were not the leader of an assembly of Jesus.
Word (in John 1:1) – correctly translated as “logos”. Logos means ultimate truth and wisdom; universal and beyond view or God's view, as opposed to human understanding. Logos did not mean “word” to the Greeks, as modern bibles mistranslate the entire idea and meaning.
Epistle - "letter".
Doctrine -"teaching".
Homosexual - correctly translated as “homosexual sex”, referring to the act, not the person. God is not against people. Rather, God is against what people often do, including fornication, adultery and homosexual sex; all three listed together in I Corinthians 6:9. “For God did not send his son into the world to condemn people, but that people through him might be saved.”
Disciple – "follower" / "student".
Angel – “messenger”
Minister– “servant” – Ministry - “service”
Preach- "proclaim" – anyone can proclaim the good news of Jesus; no religious cemetery degree either needed, required or desired. However, one should be very careful regarding anything in the Bible, that they understand and teach others correctly.
Saint- a saint is someone who has been made holy by being washed by the blood of Jesus. No pope or other human being can make anyone a saint. Only Jesus can make someone a saint. And we cannot make ourselves a saint by doing good works or refraining from certain things. Only through forgiveness from Jesus can someone become a saint.
These mistranslations are used to turn Jesus into a religion, which is not the intention of the New Testament; Jesus is deliberately secular, eating, drinking and associating with sinners and the common people, while railing against the religionists of his time. The New Testament is written in secular Koine Greek, the language of the common people. True religion is defined in James I:27. There is no other religion in Jesus other than as defined by James, for we "are not under the law, but under grace."
