John 7:8-10 — Jesus did not lie when he said he was "not going up" to the feast; he meant he would not go publicly/openly as his brothers were urging, and he did go privately.

Mike reads the context: Jesus's brothers mock him and sarcastically urge him to go to Jerusalem and show himself publicly — a move they knew would put him in danger and that they meant as ridicule (v.5 confirms they did not believe in him). Jesus responds "I am not going up to this feast" — then goes privately later. Mike's interpretation: "going up" in the full sense his brothers intended means the triumphal public Messianic entry — which Jesus indeed reserves for the final Passover (Palm Sunday). Here, Jesus simply goes privately without public proclamation. So his statement is not a lie but a refusal to go in the public-display sense his brothers were mockingly suggesting, a sense the context supplies.