Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:1:
- Uma: “Yesus also said: ‘Indeed I tell you: From among you here, some of you will not die before you see God rule with his power.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said yet, ‘Truly I say to you, some of you who are here will not die if you have not first seen the ruling of God and his ruling is really powerful.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then Jesus spoke, he said, ‘Remember this. There are some of our companions here who will not die until the time when God reveals his chosen king whose power to rule mankind is very great.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he continued saying, ‘This that I say is true that there are those of you here whose death will not yet have occurred and they will see the power of God in his ruling.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What Jesus further said to them was, ‘This which I will say to you really is true, that there are a few here today who won’t die until they have seen the arrival of the kingdom of God through his supernatural-power which can’t be equalled.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tzotzil: “…. ‘Truly I tell you, those of you who are gathered here, there will be some of you who will not die until you understand how God puts people under his orders with power.'”
- Korku: “… ‘The kingdom of God will come with power. Truly I say to you,there are some standing here who will see this before they die.'” (Source: for this and above: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 1:45:
- Uma: “From there, Filipus also went to meet-with his friend named Natanael, he said to him: ‘We have met [exclamation] the Redeemer King, like was written in the Book of the Law of Moses and the letters of the prophets long ago! His name is Yesus from Nazaret, the son of Yusuf!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Pilip looked for Natanael. When he found him, he told him, he said, ‘We (excl.) have found now the person that Musa told in the holy-book Tawrat about and also the prophets told about him in their writings. He is Isa the son of Yusup from the village Nasaret.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Philip, he went to Nathaniel and said, ‘We have seen the person that the prophets foretold long ago and that Moses foretold when he wrote in the book of the law. He is from Nazareth and he is Jesus the son of Joseph.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Now Felipe, he went and found Nataniel and said to him, ‘We (excl.) have found the person whom Moses wrote-about and the prophets also wrote-about. He is Jesus from-Nazaret the child of Jose.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That Felipe, he looked for a person named Natanael and told him, saying, ‘We (excl.) have found the one referred to in what Moises mentioned in the things he wrote and foretold also by the prophets in the things they wrote. It’s Jesus the taga Nazaret, the son of Jose-and-spouse.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Philip went to hunt for Nathanael. He told him: ‘We found the man who is spoken about in the Holy Book which Moses and the other prophets wrote. He is Jesus, who is from Nazareth, the son of Joseph.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Following is a back-translation of John 1:45 from Lalana Chinantec: “Philip went off. He went to get Nathanael. Philip said to Nathaniel: ‘We have met a person about whom Moses spoke when he wrote on paper the word, the law of God. The people who preached the word of God in the olden times, also spoke about this person. Their words are written down on paper. Jesus a person from Nazareth is the name of the person they were speaking about back then. He is the son of Joseph,’ Philip said.” (Source: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 15:8:
- Xicotepec De Juárez Totonac: “If you give very much fruit, if you do very much what God wants, in this manner you honor the Father and thus it shows that you are really my disciples.”
- Aguaruna: “When you give much fruit and the people see that, they will say, ‘Surely he is Jesus’ follower.’ When you do this they will praise my Father.”
- Ojitlán Chinantec: “In that way you make my Father big, doing much good so that people know that truly you are my disciples.”
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “My Father receives honor when you do very much the things which he likes and also you are showing that you are following me like you should, if you are doing very much the things that he likes.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
- Uma: “If you bear much fruit, my Father is made big. If like that your behavior, you are really my followers.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If you do much good, my Father will be praised and it will also be known that you are truly my disciples.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “If you continue fruiting, which is to say, if your works are always good, people will praise my Father God, and it will be known that you truly are my disciples.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This is wherein-my Father -is-honored, if your faith has much fruit, and this also is how you will show that you are my disciples.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The praiseworthiness/glory of my Father is apparent when/if the fruit of your believing/obeying is plentiful and growing well in your life. If it’s like that, it’s proof that you are my disciples.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “My Father will be respected when you live good lives. This also will make it apparent that you are my learners.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 2:22:
- Uma: “So also there is no person who pours new wine into an old container. Because when it ferments that old container will just break, with the result that the wine is spilled, and the container is wasted. So new wine must be put into a container that is also new.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa also compared his teaching with new grape juice that is filled into bags of goat hide. He said, ‘Nobody puts new grape juice that is still bubbling/fermenting, into an old bag. For if he does that, the bag will be split by the grape juice. Then the grape juice spills and the bag is destroyed. Instead new grape juice should be put into new bags.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The same way with wine which has just been made and put into goatskin containers. You cannot put it into old containers because the container will burst and the wine will pour out and the container will also be ruined. It is necessary for wine which has just been made to be put into new containers.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Nor does anyone of-course put recently-yeasted grape juice in a dried-up leather bag, because when it ferments, the leather will crack-open and the bag will be ruined while-simultaneously the grape juice will also be thrown-away. Recently-yeasted grape juice then, it must be new leather in which it is placed.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, no-one also puts new drink into an already old container made of skin which no longer gives. For if like that is done, when the drink ferments/matures, of course it will cause that container to burst. Well, isn’t is so that the drink and the container will be wasted. What is good to put new into is new also, not old.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Chuj: 2Also no one puts new wine, wine which is still in the process of expanding, into on old animal-skin wine container. That skin will rip, because the wine is still in the process of expanding. Then that wine will spill out, and the skin will be torn apart because of it. But new wine is put into new skin only.”
- Choapan Zapotec: “No one pours new liquor into cracked bottles. If people pour it into cracked bottles, its heat will break them. Both will be destroyed. It is necessary for people to pour new liquor into good bottles, and not into old, cracked bottles.” (Source for this and above: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)
- English translation by Michael Pakaluk (2019): “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine gets destroyed along with the wineskins. No, he puts new wine into fresh wineskins.'”
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 12:40:
- Uma: “They deceive widows and they take-away their houses. They hide the evil of their deeds by praying long-long. Their punishment will be very heavy.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But they,’ said Isa, ‘they cause difficulties for the widow women in order to get their houses, and they cause their worship to be long pretending that they are good people. Surely they will receive great/severe judgment in the afterworld.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The teachers of the law cheat widow women so that they might come to own the houses of those women. Their prayers are very long, but are only a coverup for their wicked deeds. God’s punishment on them later will be very great.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They moreover deceive widowed women in order to get their possessions and even their houses while-at-the-same-time they make-long their prayers in the sight of the many-people. In-the-future indeed (prophetic formula) their punishment will be heavier.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And they use up the livelihood of widows through what they cause them to give. And for the reason that they want to cover up their evil ways/nature, they pray long prayers. Really extremely hard/heavy is their punishment.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Ibaloi: “They wickedly take the possessions of widowed women, and when they go to their church they make long prayers, so that they will say that they are good people. Big is the punishment of God on them.” (Source: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:1:
- Uma: “The Parisi people heard that more and more people were going asking Yesus to baptize them becoming his followers, with the result that number of followers of Yesus surpassed the followers of Yohanes the Baptizer.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then the Pariseo heard that many more people were reportedly becoming disciples of Isa and bathed by him than those that became disciples of Yahiya. (” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The Pharisees heard the news that Jesus was making more disciples and Jesus was baptizing more people than John was; however Jesus himself wasn’t baptizing, but it was his disciples. And when Jesus also heard this news he left the province of Judea and he returned to the province of Galilee.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The Pharisees, they heard-reported that Jesus was reportedly persuading and baptizing more disciples than Juan.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The Pariseo got news that many were the people who were being drawn to and baptised by Jesus, many more than to Juan.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The Pharisees knew that many learners were gathered by Jesus and that he baptized many more people than John.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “You whom I love, do not believe the words of just anybody who says that the Spirit of God is in his head-heart, but rather test them if the Spirit of God is in their head-hearts in order for them to speak true words. Many people are going about in this world lying saying they are proclaiming God’s word.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “Loved ones, we can’t believe all whatever word is said to be God’s Word. But you must taste (try out) the words, so that you will know if a word is truly the Word of God, or not. Because many deceiver prophets (word-passers) are walking here in the world.”
- Tzotzil: “You that I love, do not believe whatever word you hear. Be wise, listen if it is the same as God’s word. Because there are many here in the world who think wrongly they are saying God’s word.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 John 4:3:
- Uma: “All people who don’t admit-confess that Yesus is that Redeemer King, they are not children of God. Those people are controlled by the influence/spirit that is from the Enemy of Kristus. You have heard the teaching that says that the Enemy of Kristus will arrive, and at this time he is already in the world.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But whoever says that Almasi did not come in the body of a human/mankind, that person does not have God’s Spirit. But/instead it is seen in him that he follows the mind of the Opposing Almasi. You have been informed hep that this Opposing Almasi will come and now many people in the world follow the mind of the Opposing Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, if there is a spirit who says that Jesus, the one chosen of God, did not become a human, then that spirit does not come from God, but rather it comes from the enemy of Christ. You have already heard that there have appeared spirits which come from the enemy of Christ, and I tell you that they are now here in the world.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But if they don’t acknowledge that Jesus is the Cristo who became a person, it is not the Spirit of God who is in them, but rather the thoughts that are the same as the One-who-Opposes Cristo. You have been hearing that he will come and already that which is opposing Cristo is now being taught.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But as for the one who gives out that Jesus didn’t become a real human, it’s certain that it is not the Espiritu Santo of God who is putting in his mind what he will say. On the contrary, the truth is, it’s the inspiring by this opponent of Cristo, he whom you were told would come. And even now/today, there is opposition like this to Cristo here now in this world.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But all who say that Jesus Christ did not become a human, then they do not walk with the Holy Spirit, rather it is the word of the enemy of Christ. And you have heard that it will come to be that the words of liars will spread through the earth. And now this word is spreading.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Yatzachi Zapotec: “The person who does not say that Jesus Christ is God and he was born a man on this earth, the Spirit of God is not in his head-heart. He thinks like the person who does contrary to Christ. You have already heard that the person is coming who does contrary to Christ, and now that person is already in this world.”
- Eastern Highland Otomi: “But whoever says that Jesus Christ is not God’s Chosen-One, and denies that he became a person, but then he doesn’t speak the Word of God. But he received the word of Christ’s enemy. And his word is a lie. We have heard that his word which is a lie was coming to the world, and now it has come.”
- Tzotzil: “If we say ‘Jesus Christ did not come and take his body here in the world,’ we have not received the Spirit of God for sure. We are of the same mind/heart with the enemy of Christ. You have heard that he is coming. He is already here in the world.” (Source for this and two above: John Beekman in Notes on Translation 12, November 1964, p. 1ff.)
- Candoshi-Shapra: “The one who says, ‘No,’ about (to) Jesus is surely not of God. He is a false Christ, one of the ones of whom you heard it said they were coming. Right now they are in the world.”
- Yanesha’: “Whichever does not admit that Jesus was born as a human, this following does not come from the Father. But this is his following, the one who is mad at Christ, the one which you already heard he is to come. Now already he has appeared on this earth.”
- Aguaruna: “However others, thoughts which are not like that, do not belong to God. Those angry at (opposed to, hating) Christ, other they think. You heard that those will come, those now they have arrived in this world here.” (Source for this and two above: Mildred Larson in Notes on Translation, July 1965, p. 1-15)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 6:18:
- Uma: “Like this is the account of Yohanes the Baptizer’s death. King Herodes took and married Herodias, the wife of his own relative who was named Filipus. Many times Yohanes denounced Herodes because of his behavior, he said to him: ‘You cannot marry that sister-in-law of yours! That behavior of your breaks the Law of Musa.’ From there, Herodes ordered his soldiers to go capture Yohanes. They did capture him, bound him and put him in prison.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For it had been King Herod hep who had commanded Yahiya to be seized and he had commanded him to be imprisoned. It happened like this: This King Herod had married his sister-in-law, Herodiyas, but his younger brother Pilip, the husband of Herodiyas, was still alive. So-then when they already had become-one, Yahiya scolded the king. Yahiya said to him, ‘It is not right/lawful (halal) if you are-one with the wife of your brother. You are sinning.’ Na, that was the reason why Herodiyas became-the-enemy-of/enemied Yahiya and wanted to kill him. But the king didn’t allow it,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for this King Herod, the reason that he had to have John killed was because John told Herod that it was a transgression of the law for him to steal the wife of his sibling, for King Herod had married his sister-in-law Herodias who was the wife of his sibling Philip. And because of what John said Herod had him arrested and put in prison.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And Juan had repeatedly said that it was against the law that he-marry his younger-sibling’s wife.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For Juan was always saying to Herodes, ‘It isn’t possible/acceptable that you are living together, for it’s contrary to the law to grab-for-yourself that sister-in-law of yours.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tsafiki: “Then John counseled-preached to Herod, You are not to marry your sister-in-law.” (Source: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)
