Following are a number of back-translations of John 10:27:
- Uma: “My sheep recognize my voice. I know them, and they follow me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The people who belong to me, the ones figuratively like my sheep, they listen-to/obey my voice. I know them and they follow me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because my own people, they will listen to my words. I know who they are, and they will follow me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because my sheep, they recognize my voice and I also know them. Therefore I am the one they follow,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “My sheep listen to my voice. I recognize/know them, and they also follow after me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “My sheep know my voice. And I know which are mine. And they follow me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 19:20:
- Uma: “That young man said: ‘I have followed all those commands. What else must I do?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The man said, ‘I am following already all that. What else shall I do?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the person answered also, ‘All of this I have guarded; what yet do I lack that is given me to do?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So then that man said, ‘I have been fulfilling all these commands. What else must I do?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That young man replied, saying, ‘I have been obeying all those already. Well what else must I do?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The man answered: ‘Concerning these words you speak, I have done them all since I was a child. So now what is the word lacking which I haven’t done?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 3:11:
- Uma: “God does all that according to his intention that he made certain from the beginning of the creation of the world, and that intention of his he will make happen in the body / person of Kristus Yesus our Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God had thought of this plan already beforehand in the beginning of time, and this his plan came to fruition when he sent Isa Almasi our (incl.) Lord here.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason He did this is because He was fulfilling that which He planned to do long ago before anything was created. And he has done this now by means of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This that God has done, it is based on what he decided long ago to do, and that’s what he has fulfilled by-means-of Cristo Jesus our Lord.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “These determined-plans of his have been from when there was still no world, and he is now causing them to be fulfilled by Cristo Jesus our Lord.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Very long ago he determined what he wanted to take place. But now it has happened when the Lord Jesus Christ was believed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 11:17:
- Uma: “When they arrived in Betania town, Lazarus had already been buried for four nights.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Isa and company arrived in Betani, it was the fourth day already that Lasarus was in the grave.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when Jesus arrived in Bethany, he heard that it was already four days ago that Lazarus was buried.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When plural Jesus arrived then at Betania, he found-out that Lazarus had been buried four-days.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Jesus and company arrived there, they found that it was already four days since Lazaro had been buried.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus arrived at Bethany, but it was now the fourth day that Lazarus was entombed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 20:22:
- Uma: “Yesus said to them: ‘You [plural] don’t know what you are requesting. Will you be able to carry the suffering that I must carry?’ Those two disciples answered: ‘We are able!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa answered he said, ‘You do not know what you are asking. Are you willing to be persecuted as I will soon be persecuted?’ ‘Yes, we are willing,’ they said.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to the two, ‘You don’t know what you’re asking for. Can you endure the torment with which I will be tormented?’ ‘Yes,’ they said, ‘we can endure.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon Jesus said to those two disciples of his, ‘You don’t know what you are saying. Can you endure do-you-suppose the difficulty that I will suffer/undergo?’ ‘It-is-possible,’ they said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘It’s like you (pl.) don’t know what you are asking for,’ said Jesus to them. ‘Are you able to experience the hardship/suffering that I will experience?’ ‘Yes, we are able,’ was the reply of those two.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But Jesus said to the sons: ‘You do not know the significance of what you ask for. Are you able to go through the suffering which I go through? Because I will overflowingly be made to suffer by the people,’ he said. They said to him: ‘Yes, we are able to suffer.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Ephesians 4:22:
- Uma: “You were taught like this: you must stop your previous behavior that you followed before you believed in the Lord. All the desires that you followed at that time caused you to fall and destroyed your lives.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore give-up/leave now your former customs. Because those customs of yours are deceiving you therefore you indulge the cravings/desires of your bodies and this is what destroys you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because of this, you must abandon the thinking of your former humanity, because this is subject to the former evil behavior. This can destroy you by means of its deceitful desires.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore you must throw-away your former thoughts and behavior/customs, because that’s the source of the bad desires or cravings that deceive you and that’s what destroys you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore, like was taught to you concerning your disgusting way of life, drop it now. Like dirty clothing, take it off now. Because if you are still following this disgusting life of yours, you are just being deceived. For you mistakenly-thought that happiness is the outcome of your indulging your disgusting desires, whereas your life is like just rotting.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore, concerning whatever evil you walked in before, separate from it now. Because that evil which you liked to do deceived your thoughts.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 11:49:
- Uma: “From there, one from the midst of them named Kayafas, the High Priest that year, said: ‘You don’t know anything!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One person answered, his name was Kayapas. He was the leading priest that year. Kayapas said, ‘You do not understand.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Caiphas, one of them spoke, he was the high priest on that year, he said, ‘You have no thinking.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But whereupon Caifas who was the highest priest that year, he said, ‘You know absolutely nothing.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When they couldn’t agree about what would be good to do, Caifas spoke, who was their leader that year. He said, ‘What are you for people?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “One person replied, he who was named Caiaphas. He was the boss of the priests that year. He said to the people, ‘Don’t you know what we must do?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 21:20:
- Uma: “When the disciples saw what had happened, they were surprised/startled, they said: ‘Why did that fig tree immediately wilt?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When his disciples saw that, they wondered, they said, ‘Why is that tree immediately withered?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “His disciples were amazed when they saw what had happened to the tree, and they said, ‘Why did this fig tree immediately wither?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When his disciples saw that, they were extremely surprised and they said, ‘Wow! How-come that fig tree dried-up immediately?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “His disciples saw this which happened. They were amazed. They spoke, saying, ‘How did that igos die at once?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The learners of Jesus saw that the tree was starting to dry up and were astounded at this. They asked him: ‘How can it be that the tree at once wants to dry up?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
