Following are a number of back-translations of John 16:6:
- Uma: “You were just sad to hear my words earlier that said I am about to go.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Your livers are really grieved because of this which I told you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Rather, you are very troubled because I told you what you are going to have to endure later on.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But yes, that’s-understandable (lit. so-it-is + concessive particle), because you are sad (thoughts hurt) on-account-of what I have told you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well now that I am telling you, your mind/inner-being really feels very bad.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Yet now because I told you this you are sad.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 24:49:
- Uma: “From there, he’ll begin to beat his fellow-slaves and he’ll keep on eating and drinking with people who get drunk.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “then he beats his fellow servants and that is what he does he feasts and drinks with those who are always drunk.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he will beat his companion servants, and he will eat and drink with drunkards.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And he will repeatedly-hardship his fellow servants while-simultaneously also eating-with and drinking-with his drunkard friends.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, he will keep on ill-treating his fellow-slaves. He will keep mixing in whatever feasts, go drinking with the habitual-drinkers.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He will begin to beat his fellow workers. He will go to drunken feasts.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 1:24:
- Uma: “At this time relatives, I am glad to carry suffering because of my work helping you. For there is still suffering that I must undergo because of my work for Kristus, and the suffering that I am encountering at this time, I am encountering because of my work for all the believers in Kristus. All of us who believe in Kristus can be compared to his body.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then I am yet joyful to endure persecution because it is for your good. I endure/suffer so that the sufferings of Isa Almasi, those that are not yet finished will be complete, that means so that the sufferings of his body will be complete; the meaning of his body is the ones trusting him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Never mind if I now have to endure that which is very difficult because it’s for your good. I rejoice in this because just like the sufferings of Christ, I’m finishing up all of the difficult things that He wants me to endure so that the body of Christ — which is to say, those who believe in Him, might be bettered.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Even-though I am being hardshipped because of what I was preaching that was to-your-benefit, I am happy nevertheless, because this hardship of mine, that’s what-is-added-to/continuation-of the hardship that Cristo endured for all who believe who are compared to his body.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I am really being-happy-about these hardships of mine now because my proverb (is), even if I am hardshipped as long as it’s for your good. For in these hardships of my body, I am completing-the-full-amount of what Cristo determined that I should experience for the benefit of all those trusting in and believing/obeying him, their likeness being his body.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “And now, I am glad that I am suffering on your behalf. Because now it has come to me to suffer that which I must pass through like when Christ suffered on behalf of the people who believe in him.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 17:5:
- Uma: “That is why I ask that you show the bigness of my life with you, Father, like the bigness of our life together before this world was created.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “O, Father, make me great/honor me there in your presence as I was honored/was great before at the time when the world was not yet created.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And now, Father, return to me in your presence that former very great highness of mine which was my highness long ago when I was with you before the world was created.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Now, Father, I will please return to you (sing.) in order that you (sing.) will again show my godhood which was my godhood when I was with you (sing.) before the world was made.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore now, Father, when I am there again with you, give to me again the glory which was mine already, when I was still there with you, before this world was created.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now, my Father, cause me to be the greatest there with you like it was with us before the world was.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 25:31:
- Uma: “‘I the Child of Mankind, when I come back, my power will really shine, and I will be accompanied by my angels. I will sit and govern like a King on a beautiful chair/seat.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then Isa said, ‘When I, the Son of Man, come back together with all the angels, I will be the ruler. Then I will sit in the place-for-judgment.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I, the Older Sibling of Mankind, when I return and the power of my shining is very great, and I am accompanied by all of my messengers, I will sit down to rule.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus continued to say, ‘I who am Child of a Person, when I come showing my authority and my dazzling godhood accompanied by all the angels, I will sit-down on my throne to rule-as-king.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus continued by saying, ‘When I come who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human, my praiseworthiness/glory being evident and my companions being all the angels, I will sit on the far-from-ordinary seat of the king.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the Man who will come from heaven, when he comes to rule, he will be accompanied by the angels. There where he sits he will judge.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 3:4:
- Uma: “For we, we can say that we died together with him. And we have received new life from Kristus, who lives with God in heaven. Kristus, he is the one who gives us new life. At this time we do not yet see him. But when he comes back, he will show the bigness of his life [i.e., glory]. And we, relatives, we also will be made-big together with him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Almasi is the one who gives us (dual) the new life, that’s why in the future when he appears again on earth we (dual) also will appear following him surrounded by his brightness.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore, brothers, when Christ who is the source of our new life, returns here, His beauty will be revealed and the beauty also of our new life will be revealed because at that time we will be with Him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That life of yours, it is indeed also Cristo’s life, so when he appears again, you will also join him and you will join-in-experiencing/sharing his goodness and his highness.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But when the time comes when the glory/praiseworthiness of Cristo will be made evident, he who is the source of this life or ours, at that time our glory will also be made evident for we will be shared-with.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Christ is the owner of our lives. When he comes then it will be seen that he surpasses in power. And also us, it will be seen that we are his companions.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 18:11:
- Uma: “Yesus said to Petrus: ‘Sheathe your (sing.) sword! Do you (sing.) think that I am going to run away from the suffering that my Father determined ahead of time for me?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to Petros, ‘Put your sword back in it’s sheath. I take on me all this suffering/persecution for this is given to me by my Father.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus scolded Peter, he said, ‘Sheathe your bolo because that which my Father causes me to suffer, shall I not suffer it?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus said to Pedro, ‘Sheath that. Do you (sing.) think I don’t need to undergo the hardship/suffering that my Father has designated/assigned me?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus forbade Pedro saying, ‘Sheathe that bolo of yours, for I won’t say no to this suffering/hardship which my Father is causing me to experience.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But Jesus said to him, ‘Peter, put away your sword. Do you think there will not be the suffering my Father has planned?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:17:
- Uma: “On the first day of the Feast of Bread that is not Yeasted, Yesus disciples came to him and said: ‘Lord, where do you (sing.) want us to prepare the Paskah food that we (incl.) will eat?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then the first day of the festival/celebration had been reached when they ate bread not mixed with yeast/for-rising. The disciples went to Isa, they said, ‘Sir, where do you want us to go to prepare for you the meal for this celebration/remembrance feast?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And on the first day of the feast of eating bread that had no yeast, Jesus’ disciples went to him and said, ‘Where is the house where you want us to cook so that your supper of the Feast of Passover might be prepared?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When the first day of the fiesta called Bread That Has No Yeast/Baking-powder arrived, Jesus’ disciples went to him and inquired, ‘Where do you (sing.) want us (excl.) to go prepare what we will eat for the fiesta called Passed-By?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The day now came which was the beginning of the Fiesta of Bread Without Raising-agent. Jesus’ disciples approached him. They questioned saying, ‘Where do you want us to prepare-the-meal which is the custom of this evening meal which is the Fiesta of Passed-by?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now began the feast, the days when is eaten the bread which is without leaven. Jesus’ learners approached him and said: ‘Where do you want us to prepare the supper for celebrating the Passover?’ they said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
