Following are a number of back-translations of John 2:10:
- Uma: “and he said to him: ‘Usually the tasty wine is poured for the guests first. When they are tired of drinking, just then is the wine that is not so tasty poured. But you (sing.), you (sing.) have held back the tasty wine, and only now you (sing.) give it to be poured!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He said to him, ‘The custom when one gives a feast is that one serves the best drink first. Then when the people have already drunk a lot, then one serves the not so good drink. But you, you have kept until now the best drink.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he called the bridegroom and he said to him, ‘According to our (incl.) custom, if there is a feast the most tasty wine is put out first, and after the people have drunk a lot, then that which is not so tasty is put out. But as for you, you have just now put out the wine that is the tastiest,’ he said.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and said to him, ‘It’s the custom of people to serve-first (lit. cause-to-precede) the tastiest/sweetest liquor. And when they have drunk-and-drunk, then they cause-to-go-last the tasteless. But you (sing.) by-contrast, you (sing.) have reserved surprised-realization-particle the tastiest/sweetest until now.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He said, ‘It’s like what is usual is, the best-quality drink is put first to be drunk. When much has already been drunk by the people, then the not best-quality is brought out. But today, you reversed it, because you just put-last this best-quality drink.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He said to him, ‘All people at first give out the good wine. But when those who are drinking it have had a lot, then he gives the wine which isn’t so good. However, you have kept back the good wine until the last.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:34:
- Uma: “That is why the people of the village thronged coming, wanting to meet Yesus. When they saw Yesus, they asked him so that he would go away/out from their village.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then the people from that town went to Isa. They begged Isa to leave from their place/country.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the townspeople found out, they went to Jesus. And when they arrived, they begged that he would go away from their town.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore all the inhabitants, they went to where-Jesus -was to converse-with him. When they arrived, they pleaded with him to go-away from the region of their town.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When the people of the town knew, they all went out to go to Jesus. On reaching Jesus, they asked him emphatically not to stay there in their place.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Then the people who lived in the town all went to where Jesus was. Upon arriving there, they told him to go.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 3:18:
- Uma: “So, all of us who believe in the Lord, there is no longer a veil that covers-up our heart. We know the Lord’s power, and his power continually changes our heart. As-time-goes-on the power of the Lord in our lives is continually-added-to to the point that we become the same as he is. The Lord’s Spirit is the one who does this in our hearts.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So then, all of us (incl.) who trust in Isa Almasi our (incl.) faces are not covered. We are figuratively like a mirror showing the brightness and power of God. Gradually we (incl.) are changed by our (incl.) Leader until we are like him. Our (incl.) Leader who changes us (incl.) is the Spirit of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now, brothers, as for all of us (incl.), we already understand that the power of the Lord is very great, and there is nothing which covers up our understanding of this; and by means of this power which comes from the Lord, which is the Holy Spirit, He will make us to be like Him, and this power will continually increase.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore all of us who believe, we are not like Moses whose face was covered-over, but rather we properly show like a mirror the godhood of the Lord Jesus while-at-the-same-time we are continually being transformed, becoming-better-and-better until we will be like him. The one who will fulfill this in us is the same aforementioned Lord who is the Holy Spirit.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, since the veiling has now been removed from our face, we can now observe the glory/praiseworthiness of the Lord, but not yet like his glory/praiseworthiness that will be seen in the future. What we can observe now is just like what can be seen in an unclear mirror. And because it’s like we can always observe his glory/praiseworthiness, by means of the supernatural-power of the Espiritu Santo whom the Lord caused-to-indwell, our ways/nature are constantly able-to-be-renewed, in which we are all making-ourselves-the-same as he is in this glory/praiseworthiness of his.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning all of us, we have now understood well that supremely good is the Lord. During the days we live he is the only one we set our hearts on. And it happens that more and more we become like him. And it is the Holy Spirit who brings this about.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 3:18:
- Chol: “He who believes will not have to pay for his sins. He who does not believe, he is already beginning to pay for his sins because he does not believe on the name of the only Son of God.”
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “The person who trusts in the Son of God, it is already determined about him that he does not have guilt, but the person who does not trust in him it is determined about him that he does have guilt. . .” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
- Uma: “People who believe in the Child of God, they are not punished/condemned. But people who do not believe, it is clear that they will be punished/condemned by God, because they do not want to believe in that Only Child of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Whoever trusts in the Son of God will not be hit by the judgment of God. Those who do not trust, have already been hit by the judgment of God because they do not trust in Isa, the only Son of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Anyone who believes in me, he will not be punished by God, but those who do not believe in me, it is known beforehand that they will be punished. Because as for me, the only child of God, they have not believed in me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore those who believe in him, they will emphatically not be punished. But those who don’t believe, they have already been sentenced/condemned to be punished, because of-course they didn’t believe in the only Child of God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As many as will believe-in/obey and trust-in/rely-on him will really not be sentenced with a sentence of punishment. But those who don’t believe/obey, they have already been sentenced to be given punishment, because they are not believing-in/obeying this one-and-only Son of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He who believes the Son of God will not be sentenced. But he who does not believe, already is sentenced because he does not believe in the only Son of God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 9:32:
- Uma: “When those blind ones had gone away, there were also those who carried a sick person coming to Yesus. That person was not able to speak because he was possessed [ridden] by a demon.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When those people had left other people arrived and they brought a dumb person. The reason that he was dumb was that he was possessed by a demon.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But before the blind men had left, some people arrive who had brought with them to Jesus a person who was dumb because he had been entered by a demon.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “As they were leaving, someone escorted to where Jesus was a dumb man who was possessed by an evil-spirit.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Just as those two left, some arrived bringing a dumb person who was possessed by an evil-spirit.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “As the men who had been blind left, there arrived people bringing to Jesus a man who had been made dumb by an evil spirit.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 5:14:
- Uma: “Kristus’ love is the reason our (excl.) behavior is like that. For we (excl.) say/think like this: Kristus died to take-the-place-of all people, so we (incl.) can say that it is like we all died.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “All that we (excl.) do that is it’s underlying reason Almasi’s love for us (incl.). We (excl.) know that one person died instead/in place of all people, therefore all people are also as having died already.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason that we work hard is because we know that we (excl.) are precious in the breath of Christ. We (excl.) know that He, being only one, was killed as a substitute for all mankind. And because of this it is as if everyone was killed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because Cristo’s love is what directs us (excl.) in all that we (excl.) do, for we (excl.) have no doubt that if one person who is Cristo died for all, it is counted/considered that all people died.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Really in everything we (excl.) do, what is dominant in our (excl.) minds/inner-being is, the big-size of Cristo’s valuing of us (excl.). For if one person died substituting for all people, therefore as for that death of his, it is now being reckoned as the death of everyone.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because I love Christ, I now only search for how to do his will. Christ died to save us. Therefore I reckon now that it is as though all our us died when he died.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:14:
- Uma: “But whoever drinks water that I give to them, they will not be thirsty again forever. Because the water that I give them becomes the water of life that flows continually in their hearts–meaning, they receive good life forever.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But whoever is able to drink the water which I cause him to drink he will really not become thirsty again. For the water which I give him to drink becomes like a spring bubbling in his liver giving him water which gives him life forever.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because the water which I will give to him will become in him a head(source) of water which can give him life forever.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But the one by-contrast who drinks the water I will give, he will-never-get-thirsty. Because the water that I give, it will become like a spring in his body which never-dries-up which gives him life that is forever.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But the one who drinks the water I will give, he will become thirsty no more, for it will be like a spring within him which gives life which has no ending.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He who will drink the water I give never will be thirsty. Because that water which I give is like water which springs up in the insides of the one who drinks in order to give the new life forever.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:26:
- Uma: “But even so, don’t be afraid of people who oppose you. Because all their hidden behavior will definitely be visible. All that is in their hearts will definitely be revealed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Do not be afraid of people. Nothing is covered up that will not finally come out, nothing is hidden that will not finally be known.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, don’t be afraid of people because their activity which they cover up will still become visible, for anything that they won’t talk about will be revealed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Therefore do not be afraid of them, because all that is hidden and not known now will be shown and made-known in a future day (lit. addition of days).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But don’t be afraid of these who will cause you suffering. Because even things which are being done which are being hidden, there’s none at all which won’t be caused-to-surface at the judging. Yes indeed, there’s nothing being done out of sight that won’t be told-to-all.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore concerning these people who are against you, do not fear them. Whatever word is covered will finally be known.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
