Following are a number of back-translations of John 8:59:
- Uma: “When the Yahudi people heard that, they picked up rocks wanting to stone him until he was dead. But instead, Yesus slipped away from the House of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then those Yahudi picked up stones for throwing them at Isa. But Isa hid and went out of the temple.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then they picked up stones to throw at him because they wanted to kill him. However Jesus hid and he left there from the church, the House of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon they all-simultaneously-picked-up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid-himself and left the Temple.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When they heard that, those Judio all picked up rocks to stone him. But Jesus then kept out of their sight in the crowd and went out of the Templo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The people then picked up stones in order to stone Jesus. But Jesus passed through their midst, he left the church and went away to be hidden from them.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 17:13:
- Uma: “From there, his disciples understood the words of Yesus earlier: the one who was compared to the prophet Elia, it was Yohanes the Baptizer.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, only then (lit. recently) did his disciples know that his words were, surprise, about Yahiya who bathed people.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the disciples of Jesus understood that it was John the Baptist that he was talking about.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When Jesus said that, then his disciples understood that Juan the Baptizer was whom he was talking-about.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “At that those three disciples understood that Juan who baptized was to whom he was referring.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Then the learners understood the word spoken by Jesus, that John who baptized was the one said to be Elijah.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 6:6:
- Uma: “The person who is taught the Word of God must share with the one teaching him from whatever blessings he has.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And you the ones who have been taught/preached the message of God, you ought to help the need of the person who teaches you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for the person who wants to be taught the word of God, he must give the one who teaches him something of the good that he has received.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The one who is being-taught the word of God, he must share with the one who is teaching him all the good-things that he has.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This is also what I will say to you, those teachers who teach you the word of God, you need to share with them whatever good things God has freely-given you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He who is taught the word of God must help the teacher by giving what is needed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:32:
- Uma: “From the beginning of the world, we have never yet heard a story that a person blind from birth could be healed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Since the beginning of the world it has not been heard that a person blind from birth was caused to see.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “From the beginning of the creation of the world until now, this is the first time we have heard about a person who could medicine and cure the eyes of a person who was totally blind before he was born.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Ever-since the beginning of the world, certainly no person has been-reported who has removed the blindness of one who was-born-with his blindness.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For from long ago when the world was young, there has never been anyone who could make well someone born blind, only now.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “From long ago it has not been heard that there arose a man who opened the eyes of a blind man who had been blind since birth.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 18:18:
- Uma: “‘Think about this / Pay attention! What you decide on earth, that also God decides in heaven: If you say don’t, God [is the one who] has said don’t. If you say it may be [i.e., it is permitted], God [is the one who] has said it may be.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid in the world that will also be forbidden in heaven. Whatever you command here in the world that will also be commanded in heaven.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And I tell you that what you forbid here on earth will be what is already forbidden by God in heaven, and what you permit here on earth will be what is already permitted by God in heaven.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘What I say to you is true, that whatever you forbid on this earth, God will also forbid in heaven, and whatever also you permit on this earth God will also permit in heaven.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What I will say to you who are my disciples is really true, that in what you (pl.) forbid through your office/responsibility here in the world, you will be upheld/stood-up-for by God in heaven. And also in what you permit here in the world, like that indeed you will be upheld by God there in heaven.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I tell you that you are the representatives of God who is in heaven. That which you give people permission to do is what they can do. That which you do not give people here on earth permission to do, they cannot do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 1:20:
- Uma: “that he used to raise Yesus up from death and sit him at his right hand in heaven.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “when he caused-to-be-alive again Isa Almasi from his death and seated/placed him at his right-side, the greatest/most distinguished place there in heaven.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “which God used when He raised Jesus Christ from the dead and caused Him to sit at His right side there in heaven.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “which he showed when he made-Cristo -alive again and when he raised him to heaven to seat him at his right-side.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “when he made Cristo to live again and caused him to sit in the praiseworthy position on his right side in heaven.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because it is God who caused that Christ be resurrected when he had died. And he took him to heaven in order that he sit at God’s right.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 10:23:
- Uma: “Yesus walked in the yard of the House of God, at the patio that is called the Salomo Patio.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa was walking there in the temple in what they call the Porch/Balcony of Sulaiman.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It was rainy season at that time, and Jesus was walking around in the House of God there at that place called the Sheltering Place of King Solomon.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus was there walking in the area of the Temple called Solomon’s Shelter.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus was walking in a roofed-place called Portico of Solomon, there at that Templo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus was walking in the portico of the church which was named Solomon.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 19:16:
- Uma: “One time a man came to Yesus and asked him: ‘Teacher, what good deed/behavior must I do in order to receive good life until forever?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then a certain man came to Isa and he said, ‘Sir, what good deed shall I do so that I have everlasting life?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there was a young person who came to Jesus and asked, ‘Oh, Teacher, what is good that I should do so that I might be given life forever?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “On one-occasion also, there was a man who went to Jesus. ‘Sir teacher,’ he said, ‘what good-thing must I do so that I will have life that has no end?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Next, there was a young man who went to Jesus, questioning, who said, ‘Teacher, what is it that I have to do so that life can be mine which has no ending?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “A man approached Jesus and said to him: ‘Listen, good teacher, which good is more important that I do in order that God give me the new life forever?’ he said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
