Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 2:8:

• Uma: «Actually Yesus knew what was in their thoughts. That is why he said: ‘Why are your thoughts like that?» (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: «Immediately Isa knew what they were thinking and he said to them, ‘Why are you questioning like that in your liver?» (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: «Then Jesus understood that that was what was in their minds, and he said to them, ‘Why are you thinking like that?» (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: «But Jesus knew nevertheless that that was in their minds, and he said, ‘Why are you thinking that?» (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: «But Jesus knew that which was in their minds. That’s why he said, ‘Why is like that in your minds?)» (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Kim text for oral translation: «What is the easiest thing; it is that of saying to the paralysed: ‘Your sins have been forgiven’ or of saying ‘Get up, take your bed, go your going (go away)’?» (Source: Bayamy Tchande Awakde in The Bible Translator 2025, p. 23ff.)
• English translation by Michael Pakaluk (2019): «So Jesus — who knows immediately in his spirit that this is how they are thinking about themselves — says to them: ‘Why are you thinking those things?'»