Need Help! can't set up server!

Hello! When I try to run terminal for my server the logs, properties, and Eula show up. Then I head into Eula and type in true but then when I run start.command this command shows up in terminal:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/bukkit/craftbukkit/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:637)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)

at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)

at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)

at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)

at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)

at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)

logout



[Process completed]

Is this something to with mac computers? I also have The new java update (java 8)
Can anyone help with this?

 

@pizzaguy4321
Java 8 is not new. That was first released over 4 years ago. The newest version is Java 11. Try that.