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Codex Sinaiticus Proves the Name Jesus Wasn't Corrupted Like People Claim

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July 14, 2026
Everyone accepts that "James" is a translation. So why does the same rule become a controversy the moment it's applied to "Jesus"? I open the actual manuscript that proves it. In this video, I examine the pages of Codex Sinaiticus, looking at James 1:1 — the only verse in the entire letter where James names himself, sitting two words away from the name Jesus — alongside a photo scan of Codex Sinaiticus and a 1582 Douay-Rheims New Testament, and trace exactly how Hebrew names moved through Greek, Latin, and English. I've spent more than twenty years studying Greek New Testament manuscripts firsthand, and this video walks through primary sources directly rather than secondhand claims circulating online. What you'll see: → James 1:1 in the original Greek, examined line by line → Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century manuscript and one of only two essentially complete Greek Bibles surviving from antiquity → A 1582 Douay-Rheims New Testament, showing "James" and "Jesus" already fixed in English nearly thirty years before the King James Version → Why the "stolen name" claim collapses once applied consistently across James, Jude, and Lazarus Chapters: 00:00 The Smoking Gun 00:39 The Viral Claim 01:06 The Problem 01:21 The "Book of Jacob" Tease 01:56 Why This Inconsistency Matters 02:26 Who's Talking to You 02:48 Framing the Investigation 03:16 Does the Pattern Hold Up? 03:33 Tracing Both Names Through History 04:40 Back to the Manuscripts 05:10 Codex Sinaiticus 06:02 The Douay-Rheims Provenance 06:40 Fixed in English Before the King James Bible 07:41 Judah, Jude, and Lazarus 08:32 What Nobody's Talking About 09:12 Every Name Made This Journey 09:58 Respecting the People Behind the Claim 10:22 The Real Story 11:03 Investigate It Yourself 11:22 Go Deeper in The Portal 11:38 The Name That Learned Every Language

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