Following are a number of back-translations of John 3:19:
Uma: “He arrived in the world carrying light to all people. But people prefer darkness to light, because their behavior is evil. That is why God punishes/condemns them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “This is the reason why they are hit by God’s judgment, because Isa has already come here to the world to enlighten the thoughts/minds of mankind but mankind does not want the light. They want the darkness because their doings are bad.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason they will be punished is because when I, who am called the light came here in the world, they preferred darkness which is to say, transgression against God, rather than the light, because what they do is bad.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “This is the reason they were condemned. The light (silaw) which illuminates the minds of people came to this world, but they esteemed/valued the darkness more-than the light (mapat-a, as in daylight), because what they were doing was evil.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “They will be sentenced like this because he who is meant by the light came here to the world, but what people preferred was darkness, not this light/enlightenment, because of their continued doing of evil.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “And those who do not believe now will be sentenced because they do not believe in the Son of God who came here to earth. It is like a light reveals all things, in like manner he causes people to know they have sins. But the people do not look favorably upon one who says they have sin because they do evil.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 9:33:
Uma: “So when Yesus had shooed/chased-away the demon that possessed him, he was able to speak. The people were surprised/startled to see what happened, they said: ‘No kidding his power/authority! We have never yet one time seen anyone like him in the land of Israel!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “After Isa had driven out the demon, the dumb person could talk already. The crowds really wondered. They said, ‘We have not yet seen anything like this in the whole country of Isra’il.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When Jesus had cured him already, immediately the man was able to speak. All the people there were amazed, and they said, ‘We (incl.), the descendants of Israel, this is the first time we have ever seen anything like this.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Jesus made-the evil-spirit -leave and the man began to speak. The many-people were extremely surprised and they said, ‘Wow! We have seen absolutely nothing like this in our entire country Israel!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Jesus drove out the evil-spirit and suddenly/unexpectedly that dumb person could then speak. Those people who saw it were amazed. They were saying, ‘Really from long ago we (incl.) haven’t observed anything like this here in Israel.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Jesus caused the evil spirit to leave the person he had walked with. Then the dumb man was able to speak. The people who saw what had happened were astounded, they said: ‘Concerning what we have seen now, no one has arisen in past days to do the like of it here in the land of Israel.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 5:15:
Uma: “For the purpose of Kristus dying to take the place of all people [is/was] so that we who are still living in this world will no longer follow our own desires. We follow Kristus’s desires, for he is the one who died and lived again to take our place.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Almasi died in place/as exchange for all people so that we (incl.) the ones living, no longer follow our (incl.) own wishes but that is what we (incl.) follow the wishes of the one who died in our (incl.) stead and he lives again for our (incl.) good.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He died as a substitute for all mankind, so that those people who are still alive, they might no longer do what they want to but rather, they might fulfill the desire of Christ who is the one who was killed and raised again, so that they might be freed from punishment.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “He died for all in order that we who are alive, it shouldn’t be what we desire that we follow but rather what Cristo desires who died and lived again for us.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Well, he died substituting for all people so that, we who are like his companions in being made alive again, hopefully we will now live no longer giving priority to our own will but rather to his will because he died because of us, and was made alive again too.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Christ died to save all of us and now we do not decide for ourselves how we will walk. Rather we now live to do the will of Christ, he who died and resurrected.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:15:
Uma: “That woman said: ‘If thus, give me that water, so that I will no longer always be thirsty, and I will no longer need to come here to fetch water every day.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “‘Sir,’ said the woman, ‘give me this water, that you spoke about, to drink, so that I won’t get thirsty again and that I don’t have to keep coming here to draw water.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the woman said, ‘Sir, let me drink some of that water that you are talking about so that I will never get thirsty again, and I will never again also have to fetch water here.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Then the woman said, ‘Sir, please give-me-some of that water so I will-never-get-thirsty and I will not have to keep-coming here to go get-water.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “The woman said next, ‘Master, well if that’s how it is, give me that water you’re talking about, so that I won’t become thirsty again, coming again and again here to this well to draw water.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “The woman said, ‘Sir. Give me the water you are speaking about so that I will never be thirsty. Also I will never come to draw water from this well here.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:27:
Uma: “‘What I say to you that other people do not listen to, you must speak/tell to all people. What I just whisper to you in your ear, say clearly in the ears of the people/crowd.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Whatever I tell you at night, tell it in daytime, and whatever you hear when it is you only/in private, spread it to the people in the market.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The things which I say which you alone have heard, tell them to everybody. That which I whisper to you, spread it to all people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “What I have been saying to you that no one (else) was able-to-hear, it is necessary that you make-known to the many-people. What moreover I have been whispering to you, it is necessary that you shout it so that many-people will hear it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “The things I am saying to you when you are the only ones I am teaching, you must make them known to all people. My teachings that only you heard, you are to teach them to everyone.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “These words I tell alone to you, you must tell to all the people. These words I whisper in your ears will be heard in all the towns.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Amele: “(What) I tell you secretly in the dark tell in daylight before the eyes of men. (What) I whisper to you and you hear tell all people while standing on the house ridgepole.” (Source: John Roberts in this article )
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 7:8:
Uma: “Even though the contents of my letter the other day [lit., yesterday] stung your hearts, yet my heart is not sorry that I wrote that letter. At first my heart was sorry, for I knew that your hearts would be sad reading that letter. But your sadness of heart was only for a while.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Because even if you are sad/troubled because of my letter/what I wrote to you, I do not regret that I sent that letter to you. It is true in the beginning I regretted it, when I knew that you were sad even a little while only because of that letter.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For even though you became sad by means of that letter. I decided that it was very good that I sent it. At first I was sorry that I had sent it, because it made you sad; however, only for a short time.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Because even though you were saddened because of that letter of mine to you, I have no regret now that I wrote it. I did admittedly feel-regret when-I-found-out that you were hurt, even though your sorrow was only for-a-moment.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “For even though that letter that I sent you gave you grief, I am not now regretting the things that I wrote. Admittedly I did feel-regret over that letter when I heard that it had given you grief even if only for a short time.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “When I sent the letter to you before, my heart was sad because of the words in the letter. Because I knew very well that your hearts would be sad when you read the words written there. And now, my isn’t sad because I wrote the letter to you. Because I know that no longer are your hearts sad.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:47:
Uma: “When that leader heard of Yesus’s arrival in Galilea from Yudea, he went to Kana town to meet him, he said to him: ‘Lord, let us go to Kapernaum, you (sing.) please heal my child for me, because he is nearly dead.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “When this titled-one heard that Isa had arrived in Jalil from Yahudiya, he immediately went to Isa. He begged Isa to come along to Kapernaum to heal his child because he was soon to die.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when he heard the news that Jesus was arriving in Galilee from Judea, he went to Jesus and he begged him that he should go to Capernaum so that he might heal his child because it was dying already.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “When he heard-reported that Jesus had arrived in Galilea coming-from Judea, he went and pleaded with him that he go to Capernaum to go heal his child who was already dying.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “When that person knew that Jesus had arrived again in Galilea coming from Judea, he went at once to him in Cana. He asked him to continue on to Capernaum because he was asking aid for his now dying son.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “That man heard that Jesus had now arrived in Galilee from Judea. He went to see him to ask the favor that Jesus come to his house in order to heal his son, since he was about to die.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 11:17:
Uma: “they say: ‘We invited you to play flutes, you did not want to be glad with us. We invited you to wail, you also did not want to weep with us.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “‘We beat the gongs for you, but you did not dance. We wailed but you did not cry.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘We are drumming for you, and you will not dance. We pretend mourning, and you won’t join in either.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “‘We (excl.) were certainly playing-the-gongs, but you refused to dance. Therefore we (excl.) sang-funeral-songs, but you still refused to join in.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “They’re saying, ‘Whatever we (excl.) do, it doesn’t suit you (pl.). We play stringed-instruments for you but you don’t dance. We sing songs sung at burials but you don’t cry.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “‘We blew the flute for you to dance but you wouldn’t dance. And we sang sad songs, but you wouldn’t cry,’ they said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
