Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:44:
- Uma: “Yudas had already told them the sign so that they would knew which one was Yesus, he said: ‘The one whom I will kiss, he’s the one. Catch him and take him off, guard him well.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They had been given a sign by Judas. He had hep said to them, ‘Whoever I kiss, he is the person. Seize/arrest him and take him away and watch him well.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Judas, their guide to Jesus, had told them before what the sign would be for them to recognize Jesus. He said, ‘The person whom I kiss is the one you are looking for. Arrest him and guard him carefully as you take him.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There was a sign that Judas had agreed-on-with his accompanying-group so that that’s how-they -would-recognize Jesus. He said, ‘The one I will kiss, that’s whom you are to arrest. Carefully guard/watch him in taking-him -away.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “While they were still on their way, Judas had already said to those companions of his what he would do. He said, ‘Now whoever I kiss, that’s the one we (incl.) have come for. Arrest him at once and take him along carefully.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of James 1:13:
- Uma: “If there are those of us who are tempted to do evil actions, let’s not say like this: ‘That temptation is from God.’ That is not true, for God, he cannot be tempted to do evil, and also he does not tempt us to do evil.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If you are tempted to do bad, do not say that God is the one who tempts you. For God really cannot be tempted and he really does not tempt.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When a person is successfully tempted, he must not think that the one who tempted him is God. For God cannot be tempted and he also does not tempt anybody.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If moreover there is someone among you who is undergoing-hardship and-at-the-same-time is being tempted, he shouldn’t think/say that God is the one who is tempting him. Because God, he cannot be tempted and moreover it is not he who tempts even any person.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And if someone who has now believed is reached by testing, he must not think that God is testing him with the intention of causing him to fall (into sin, fig.). Because as for this God, he really is far from all sin, therefore of course he wouldn’t want to cause anyone at all to fall (into sin, fig.).” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When it comes to mind to do evil, the person must not say that God brought to mind the evil that he wants to do. Because God does not have brought to his own mind that he do evil and he does not bring to people’s minds that they do evil.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 17:31:
- Uma: “For he has made-certain one time later to decide/judge the cases of people all over the world justly. That work of deciding he has handed over to a person whom he chose ahead of time. That person he caused to live again from death, so that it would be clear to all mankind that he is indeed the one he chose to be the Judge of all mankind.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For God has already appointed the day when he will judge all mankind, and his judgment is straight. And he has already chosen the man who will judge. God has-made-certain-to/assures all mankind that he is the one he has chosen, in that he made this man alive again from his death.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He has set a day in the future upon which he will inspect all of mankind, and his inspection will be righteous also by means of the person whom he has chosen. He has shown that this which he will do is true because as for that person, he died and God raised him from the dead.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because there is a day that God has designated when-he-will-judge all people in the world. There is also a person whom he chose to properly judge them, and he confirmed that he is the one whom he chose by-means-of his bringing-him -to-life again.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For he has already determined the day when he will judge all people for their sins. There is a person whom he has set up to do the judging, and this judging of his is just/righteous. The proof that he is the one set up by God is, he died and then God made him alive again.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Morelos Nahuatl: “Thus God wants that we repent because he set apart a day in order that all people be before him. He chose a man named Jesus in order that on that day which God set apart Jesus would say which people are good and which people are bad. God chose Jesus for that work because Jesus says only what is true. God made Jesus alive from the dead ones and in that way he showed us that he chose Jesus for that work.”
- Teutila Cuicatec: “He has already established a day when he will judge with complete fairness all the people of the world. He has already chosen a man who will judge in his stead and he raised that person back to life from among the dead’. By this he has given all people to understand that this is how things are established.”
- San Mateo del Mar Huave: “‘For Father God has appointed a day in which to judge all the people of the world. That will be when Jesus will judge. For that reason Father God, when he raised Jesus from the dead, then it was manifested that it was the truth all that he had said that he would do.’ he says.” (Source for this and two above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 15:4:
- Uma: “That’s why he asked him again: ‘Don’t you (sing.) want to answer? All kinds of things have been announced about your (sing.) behavior.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He was asked again by Pilatus, he said, ‘Don’t you have anything to answer? Look at their many accusations of you.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “and because of this, Pilate asked Jesus again, he said, ‘Haven’t you anything to answer to their many accusations against you?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That being so, Pilato said, ‘You (sing.) have heard the many-things they are-accusing-you (sing.) -of. Do you (sing.) have no answer?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore he was again questioned by Pilato, ‘Don’t you have any answer for them? Can’t you hear the many things they have against you?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of James 2:18:
- Uma: “Perhaps there will be someone who will say like this: ‘One person trusts in his faith, another person trusts in his good behavior.’ Yet I say: you (sing.) cannot show me that faith of yours(s) if your (sing.) behavior is not good. But I, from my good behavior, I show you (sing.) that I also have faith in the Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But perhaps someone wants to argue. Perhaps he says, ‘Never mind, for the people don’t follow God (all) in the same way. Some trust in God. Some do good.’ So-then this is also what I answer him, ‘Make sure to me that you are truly trusting God even if you don’t have good works along with it (lit. cause-to-follow-with). And I also will make sure to you that I truly trust because of my good works.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If someone says, ‘One believes in God so that he might be freed from punishment, and as for another person, he does good so that he might be freed and both of them are right.’ But what my answer is to the two is: it’s necessary that we believe, but it cannot be that our faith in God is true if that faith of ours cannot be perceived by means of our good behaviour. It is necessary that we show our faith by means of our actions.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But there is perhaps someone who will debate saying, ‘There are indeed many-different ways in which people believe, because the one, he has faith only, but the other, it’s good deeds only that he has.’ If someone says that, here also is my answer. ‘All right then, if you (sing.) believe only, how perhaps will you (sing.) show the truth of your (sing.) faith? Because as for me, I will confirm my faith by what I am doing.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But maybe there’s someone who wants to argue/disagree, saying, ‘As for one, the believing which has been graced to him is his far-from-ordinary trusting-in/relying-on God. As for another, what has been graced to him is doing good works.’ But my answer to that is, ‘There’s no dividing-place between true believing and good works. Cause me to comprehend how I can recognize whether there is truth to that believing of yours(s) which has nothing you are doing which testifies that you belong to the Lord. As for me, the things I do testify that my believing really is true.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Suppose there is someone who says: ‘Now there are some who have their faith, and also there are some who do good,’ he says. I will say to them, ‘How can it be apparent that you have faith and there is not a bit of good to be seen in what you do? For my part, you can know that I have faith by means of the good I do,’ I will say.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 19:1:
- Uma: “While Apolos was in Korintus, Paulus traveled through the towns that were in the mountains in Little Asia, and then descended to the village of Efesus. There he met several followers of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “While Apollos was there in Korinto, Paul travelled passing through the places in-the-countryside (diyata’) until he arrived in Epesus. There he met some disciples of Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “While Apollos was still in Corinth, Paul was passing through the villages upstream from Ephesus, and he also went down to Ephesus. He found there some disciples of Jesus,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “While Apollos was still in Corinto, Pablo went to Efeso from Frigia walking-through the mountains. When he arrived there, there were disciples whom he came-upon,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Apolos was there now in Corinto, Pablo, who had gone to those he had taught in Galatia and Frigia, then arrived in Efeso. When he arrived there, he saw/met some believers.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 15:36:
- Uma: “One ran to get a clump of flowers/plants that is like moss, he soaked it in anggur water that was sour, he put it on the tip of a pole and extended it to Yesus’s lips to drink. He said: ‘Wait, we’ll see if Elia indeed comes to take him down from the cross!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Immediately someone ran carrying like cotton and soaked it in a drink. Then he stuck it onto a stick and gave it to Isa to suck on. That person said, ‘Wait a minute. (da’a dahu’) Let us (incl.) see if Nabi Eliyas will come to take him down from that post!'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And one of the people there hurried and got a sponge and dipped it in vinegar and stuck a stick into it and put it up to the mouth of Jesus so that he might suck on it, and he said, ‘Leave him alone. Well see if Elijah will come to take him down.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “One of them instantly-ran to go get something like cotton. He soaked it in vinegar, and then he impaled it on a reed in order to hold-it-up-to-his-mouth so that he could suck-on-it. ‘Kindly wait so we will see if Elias comes to take-him -down from the cross,’ he said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Someone ran and fetched an absorbent thing. He saturated it with sour drink, pierced it with a stick and then held it up to the mouth of Jesus so that he could drink. He said, ‘Just leave him alone. Let’s see whether Elias will come here and remove him from that cross.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of James 4:6:
- Uma: “But the help that the Lord gives us from/because-of his grace [white insides] is stronger [emphatic] than all our hearts’ desires. That’s why it is written in the Holy Book: ‘God opposes people who are proud [lit., whose hearts are high]. But people who are humble [whose hearts are low] he helps because of his white insides [grace].'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But God’s help to us (incl.) is still stronger than the greedy-desire that carries/influences us (incl.). The holy-book says, hep ‘God opposes those that have a high/proud liver, but he pities/has-mercy-on those who have a low/humble liver.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “however, God’s help to us is much stronger than that. And because of that, there is a written word of his which says, ‘God is against the one who holds himself high, but he helps the one who, by contrast submits to him.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This is difficult to obey, but much also is his mercy/kindness and help to us so that will follow him correctly. Since that’s what he does, there is also that which he caused-to-be-written which says, ‘God opposes the one who is proud (lit. raises his mind), but he shows-mercy-to the one who is humble.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But far greater than this is the grace/mercy which God gives. That’s why it’s written in the writing, which says, ‘God really opposes those who are arrogant, but his grace/mercy is big which he gives to the humble.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God favors us in that he very much helps us. Because in the Holy Book it is written, ‘God does not approve of those who elevate themselves. Now, those who do not elevate themselves, those he helps,’ it says.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Proverbs 3:34.
