Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:21:
- Uma: “When they heard that, they were glad to receive Yesus into the boat. When Yesus got into the boat, they arrived at the edge of the shore they were heading for.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They took Isa into the boat, and when he was inside already, immediately they arrived at the place they were going to. (Lit. They rode/caused to ride Isa, and when he was riding…)” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then they were happy and they caused him to get into the boat. And immediately when they caused him to get into the boat, they docked there in the village that they were going to.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then their minds changed and they wanted to have-him -get-in the boat, and in-a-moment they suddenly-came-to-land where they were going.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Then they were glad. They caused Jesus to get into the boat. After he’d got on board, suddenly/unexpectedly they happened to come in to shore there where they were headed for.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The learners were glad that Jesus was going to come to the boat. At once the boat arrived to the shore where they were going.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:12:
- Uma: “People who receive the Word of God, their hearts will be made-clear so that they know more and more of the Word of God. But people who do not want to receive the Word of God, even if there is a little that they do know, it will be taken from them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For a person, if he listens well, he will understand more. But if a person does not listen well, even if he understands a little, it will finally leave him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because the person who has believed and has understanding, God will give to him more so that his understanding will be right. But he who doesn’t believe, God will take away from him the little that he understands.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because the person who heeds what he is hearing, his understanding will be added-to until he understands much, but the one who doesn’t heed-it, even the little he thought he understood will disappear.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The one who believes/obeys what he has learned from me, his wisdom/understanding will be increased by God until he knows a lot/enough. But the one who doesn’t acknowledge-as-true this which he has heard, God will remove even what he has understood so it doesn’t come to anything.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The person who understands about the word will be helped by God to know even more. But the person who pays no attention to the word I speak, the little bit that he does know will be taken from him.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 12:9:
- Uma: “But he said to me: ‘ I won’t take it away, but I will help you (sing.) with my white insides [i.e., grace]. That is enough. For if you (sing.) are weak, my strength is completely clear [i.e., evident] in your (sing.) life.’ That, relatives, is why I am proud [have a big heart] to talk of all my weaknesses, for when I am weak, Kristus’ strength overshadows/shades me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But he answered saying, ‘My help is enough for all that you experience, because my power is really seen when you are weak.’ Therefore I am very happy to boast about my weaknesses because when I am weak I feel Almasi’s strength helping me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, what He said to me was, ‘I will help you so that you may endure it and that’s enough. Because if you can’t do anything, then very big is what my power can do for you,’ he said. Because of this, I really want to boast about my lack of wisdom so that I might be strengthened by the power of Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But he said to me, ‘My grace suffices for you (sing.) so that you (sing.) can-endure your (sing.) hardship, for my power is exactly shown in a person’s weakness.’ Therefore because of this answer of the Lord Jesus, I am not continuing to request that he have-it-removed, but rather I am happy to value/esteem my weakness in order that Cristo’s power may continually be in/with me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But his answer was, ‘Even if I will not remove it (=polite way of saying ‘I won’t remove it’), but you can be assured that I will grace you with my help which is always sufficient for all that you need. For if a person has none of his own strength left because of his hardships, my help with-which-I -will-strengthen him will all the more be evident.’ Therefore I am happy-about my weaknesses because, each time I have a weakness I am always being strengthened by the supernatural-power of Cristo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But Christ told me: ‘The only thing for you to know is that I love you. I will not cure you, in order that it will be seen that you are not strong. From this will be seen that it is I who gives you strength in what you are doing’ I was told. Therefore I rejoice that I am not strong. Because thus it is seen that Christ gives me strength for what I do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:53:
- Uma: “That is why he said to them: ‘These my words are very true: If you do not eat my body, I the Child of Mankind, and if you do not drink my blood, you will not receive spiritual life [lit., life of your souls].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Mankind, that means my flesh and if you do not drink my blood, you have no true life.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said, ‘It is true what I say to you, as for me, the older sibling of mankind, if you do not eat my body and if you do not drink my blood, you do not have life forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus then said, ‘True indeed is this that I say to you that if you don’t eat the body of me who am Child of a Person and you don’t drink my blood, you will not have in you the life that has no end.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That’s why Jesus said to them, ‘This is the truth which I will say to you. Except you get to eat the flesh of the One From Heaven Born of Man and get to drink his blood, true life really cannot be yours.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said to the people, ‘I tell you the truth that if you don’t eat the flesh of the man who came from heaven and if you don’t drink his blood, then you don’t have the new life. Truly, It is necessary that you eat the flesh of the Man who came from heaven and you drink his blood in order to have the new life.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:44:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘If we (incl.) become God’s people in his Kingdom, that is better than everything else. That happening is like this parable: A person found gold buried in the ground, it was very expensive, he immediately covered it back up. From the gladness of his heart, he went to his house, sold all his goods/belongings, he used-[the-money]-to-buy the land where-he-found that gold.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa told again a parable, he said, ‘The ruling of God over his people is like wealth hidden in the ground and found by a certain person. He covered it up again and was very glad, therefore he sold everything he had. And then he bought the ground where that wealth was which he had found.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The ruling of God is also like gold that was hidden in the ground in a field. There was a person who found this and he covered it up again, being very happy. And he went home and he sold everything he owned, and he returned and bought that field.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus continued saying, ‘God’s ruling, it can be compared to gold that was buried in a swidden/garden. When a person found it, great was his happiness. He hid it again and he went to sell all his possessions, then he returned to buy that swidden/garden.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus said next, ‘The kingdom of God is like wealth which lay-buried in a piece-of-ground. This wealth was found by a person who was digging. After he’d found it, he covered it up again and went home very happy. Arriving there at his house, he sold all his possessions and then bought that piece-of-ground.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the people who seek how to enter the hand of God who is in heaven, these are like a person who found where much money was buried. Upon finding the money, again he covered it, rejoicing over what he had found. He will go, sell all that he owns in order to buy the land where the money is buried which he found. Then he will be the owner of that land.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
See also 1 Meqabyan 3:6 (Ethiopian Maccabees).
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 1:7:
- Uma: “Actually, there is no other way to get goodness from God, only the Good News which we (excl.) already announced to you. But there are those there [where you are] who confuse you with their false teachings. Their intention is to distort the Good News of Kristus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But the truth is there is no different teaching as-to about/concerning God’s saving us (incl.). But there are only people who want to trouble your minds/thoughts and they want to change the good news about Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, it’s not possible that there be another doctrine which can be called good news. I’m saying this because there are some people there who are teaching lies and by means of this, your minds have become troubled because they want to change into a lie the good news about Christ.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The truth of it is, there is no other good news except (lit. if not) that concerning Cristo, but there are reportedly those who are confusing (lit. dizzying) you who are trying to alter this good news.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But well, this really is the truth, there is only one Good News. There is no other. Those who have come to you who are reportedly teachers, they are just agitating your minds/thinking. They are working-diligently to get this Good News concerning Cristo replaced.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But what is truly the good news is not several messages but just one. Now there are those who disturb your hearts, they want to change the good news about what Christ did.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 7:14:
- Uma: “During the feast, Yesus entered into the House of God, and he began to teach.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When it was almost the middle of the festival, Isa went to the temple and began teaching the people.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when the festivities were half done, Jesus went to the House of God, and there he taught the people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When the fiesta was half-over (lit. halved), Jesus went to the Temple to go teach.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When the fiesta was half-over, Jesus entered the Templo and taught there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “It was about the middle of the celebration when Jesus went into the church to teach.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 14:18:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘Bring it here.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said, ‘Bring them here to me.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘Bring it here,’ said Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But then Jesus said, ‘Bring-it here.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Bring them here to me,’ said Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said to his learners: ‘Give me the bread and the fish.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
