Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 2:7:
- Uma: «‘How dare that person talk like that! [lit., That person is so daring to talk like that!] He wants to make his life the same like the life of God! There is no one who can forgive sins, just God alone.'» (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: «‘Uy!’ they said. ‘He speaks as if he is God. Who can forgive sins except (lit. if not) God only.'» (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: «‘This man talks as if he can forgive sins. He has transgressed against God, because who can forgive sins if not God alone?'» (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: «‘Why did he say that? This person is making-himself -equal to God. Because who do-you-suppose (rhet. question) has authority to forgive sins if not God only?'» (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: «‘Why does this fellow speak like this, making-himself-God, for isn’t it so that only God is able to forgive sin?'» (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Kim text for oral translation: «As Jesus knows the thoughts of people, when he understood that they think in their heart like that, he said to them: ‘You think word like that in your hearts why?‘» (Source: Bayamy Tchande Awakde in The Bible Translator 2025, p. 23ff.)
- English translation by Michael Pakaluk (2019): «‘How can he talk like that? He is blaspheming. Who has the power to forgive sins except God alone?'»