diff --git a/json/json.go b/json/json.go
index 80772cf..8b7af74 100644
--- a/json/json.go
+++ b/json/json.go
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ func (enc *Encoder) Encode(v interface{}) error {
 	}
 
 	encoderBufferPool.Put(buf)
-	return err
+	return enc.err
 }
 
 // SetEscapeHTML is documented at https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#Encoder.SetEscapeHTML