The Day Christ Lied

In Christian theology, it is a fundamental assumption that Jesus was incapable of lying. In fact, the entire theological edifice depends upon it. How is it, then, that New Testament scholars will reluctantly admit that a variant reading in the Gospel of John in which Jesus appears to tell a lie may be the correct reading? By their laborious efforts through the ages to justify and explain this little know variant, theologians betray the fragility of there religious enterprise.