Following are a number of back-translations of John 5:17:
- Uma: “Yesus said to them: ‘My father works until this day, and I also must work.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then Isa answered them, he said, ‘My Father God always works until now/today, likewise I, I also work.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However Jesus had an answer for them, he said, ‘God my Father, he does not stop working. And as for me, I continue to work also.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus said to them, ‘My Father, he absolutely doesn’t stop his work, therefore I also, I am continuing to work.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well since it was like that, Jesus said to them, ‘As for my Father, he continues his work of showing-mercy/grace. Well, like that indeed is what I do.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said, ‘My Father is working yet, also I am working.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:11:
- Uma: “Yesus answered: ‘For example we (incl.) have a sheep, and that sheep falls into a hole on the day of worship, would we (incl.) leave it in the hole! Wouldn’t we (incl.) lift it out, even on the worship day!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa answered he said, ‘What do you do if for example you have only one sheep and it falls into the well on a day-of-no-work? Do you not get it out even though it is a day-of-no-work?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered, ‘If there is a sheep of any of us and it falls into a pit on the Day of Rest, it is not possible that he does not lift it out of that pit even if it is the Day of Rest.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus answered saying, ‘All-right now supposing (lit. go-ahead please if) you have a sheep that falls into a pit on the day for-resting, you go pull-it -out, is it not so?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied saying, ‘Supposing anyone of you had a sheep which happened to fall into a well on the Day of Rest, wouldn’t he rescue it?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said: ‘What do you do when you have a sheep and it falls into a hole on the day of rest? You know you at once pull it out even though it is the day of rest.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 10:9:
- Uma: “So, wait for my arrival, so that there won’t be anyone who says that I’m just scaring you with my harsh letters.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I am saying this so that you don’t think/say that I want to frighten you with my letters.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I don’t want to frighten you by means of this letter.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I said this so you won’t say/think that I am trying to frighten you by my letters.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “You should not think that my letters to you are just to scare (you).” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do not think that I send the letter in order to speak strong to you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:2:
- Uma: “Very many people followed him, because they saw all the miracles that he did, healing the sick.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One day when the festival of the Yahudi was near again which they call Festival For-Remembering Isa crossed over to the other side of the lake Jalil which is also called lake Tiberi. Very many people followed him because they had seen his wonder-causing deeds when he healed the sick people. So-then Isa and his disciples went up the mountain and they set down there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there were very many people that followed after him because they had seen the miracles which he did in curing sick people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Extremely-many were the people who were following them, because they saw the amazing things that he was doing to those who were sick.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He was followed-after by many people because of those signs they were seeing which were amazing things which he was doing, which was healing sick people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Many people followed because they saw him healing the sick people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Chol: “Many went following Jesus because they saw the picture of his power which he showed on behalf of the sick ones.” (Source: Larson 1998, p. 107)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:43:
- Uma: “‘ Evil people who live at this time can be compared to a person who is possessed [lit., entered-into] by an evil-spirit. The evil-spirit goes out from that person, and wandered around in the wilderness/empty-place hunting for a dwelling-place. Because he did not find one, he said: ‘I’d better just return going to the dwelling-place that I left behind earlier.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘If a demon comes out of a person,’ said Isa, ‘he walks about in the lonely place looking for a resting place, but he doesn’t find one.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If a demon goes out of the person that he has been afflicting, he goes out into dry country because he is looking for a place to live. If he doesn’t find any,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus continued, parabling, ‘When an evil-spirit who has possessed a person leaves, it goes-about in a stony-area that has no water searching for a place-for-itself-to-rest. And if it doesn’t find any,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For supposing an evil spirit comes out of the person he has been possessing, what this evil spirit will do is just wander about in the wilderness, looking for someone else to possess. Well if he doesn’t find anyone,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the evil spirit when he has separated from the person he walked with, he will travel in the place which is extremely dry, hunting for a place to rest. But if he does not find a place to rest he will say:” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 11:23:
- Uma: “They say they are Kristus’s workers. How much more I, I am more [Kristus’s worker] then they! (I’m talking here like I am no longer clear-headed.) My work is more than their work. Many times I have been imprisoned, more than they have! I have been beaten severely, more than they have! Many times I have almost died.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If they boast that they are servants of Almasi, I also am a servant of Almasi but I am much better than they. I know that I am speaking like a stupid/bad person, making myself great. I am working much harder than they. How many times have I been in prison because of my working for Almasi? More (often) than they. How many times have I been beaten? More (often) than they. And often I almost died.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I know that I’m acting like a crazy person because of what I say, but my mouth cannot be stopped from saying these things. They say that they are servants of Christ. I am even a more faithful servant of Christ. What he has given me to do is very difficult. I’m always being put in prison, and they are not; I’m always being beaten by people who are enemies of God more than they; I have experienced being almost killed more times than they have.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They say that they serve Cristo, isn’t that so? It’s as if I’m crazy in this that I’m saying, but I’ll go-ahead anyway and say that my serving Cristo has been more important/valuable. Because I am far more industrious to work for Cristo than they. There are more times-that-I-have-been-imprisoned. My whippings can’t be counted. Often I have been near death.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, what are they, servants of Cristo? (What I am saying here, it’s like the words of a demented person.) But I am a much better servant of Cristo, better than they are. My perseverance is really much more, for I have been imprisoned many times, whipped not just once (=litote for many times), and I really am always almost being killed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “They say that they do the work of Christ. But I also even more do the work of Christ than they do. I suppose that it sounds like I really have lost my mind in how I am talking. But much more work have I done than they. Much more have I suffered, being whipped more than they. Many more times have I been in jail than they. Many more times have I been in danger of being killed than they.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:34:
- Uma: “The people said to him: ‘If thus, please give us (excl.) that food every day!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then those people requested of Isa, they said, ‘Sir, as long as we (excl.) live give us (excl.) this food you spoke about.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they said to Jesus, ‘Give us that food which you are talking about, and not just today but rather forever.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon they said, ‘Sir, please give us (excl.) that food always.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Master,’ they said, ‘hopefully you will always give us (excl.) that food.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Then he was told, ‘Boss, always give us this bread then.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:25:
- Uma: “One night while the person was asleep, an enemy of that gardener came, he sowed the garden with seeds of grass that is almost like rice in its leafing, and then left.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One night while all people were asleep, his enemy went there and he scattered seeds of weeds on top of the seeds (lit. following) and then he left.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “One night while he was sleeping, his enemy arrived and scattered in the field the seeds of a bad plant, and he went home.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “One night when they were sleeping, his enemy went to broadcast weed seeds to mix with the rice.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “One night when people were asleep, his opponent came, who scattered-seed of a poisonous weed there in that field which had been planted with wheat.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But while all the people slept, the enemy of the owner of the field entered the wheat field at night. He planted seeds which appear like wheat. Then he left.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
