Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:38:
- Uma: “Because I came from heaven not to do my own will. I came to do the will of God who sent me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “because I came here not to do my own will but to do the will of God, the one who sent me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason I tell you this is because I came here from heaven so that I might obey the will of my Father who sent me. I am not fulfilling just my own desire.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because I didn’t come-down from heaven in order to do what I want but rather to do what the one who sent me wants.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because I descended coming from heaven, not for the purpose of doing my own will, but on the contrary that will of the one who sent me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because I haven’t been sent from heaven to do what is just my own will, rather I came to do the will of him who sent me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 13:29:
- Uma: “‘The owner of the garden said: ‘Don’t, because if you pull up the grass, you will end up pulling out the rice as well.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Don’t,’ he said, ‘because if you pull out the weeds perhaps you will also pull out the plants.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘Don’t you yet, because the good plants might be included.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “”No,’ he said, ‘because the rice will be uprooted-with.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Don’t do it yet,’ he answered, ‘for maybe even the wheat will get included in what you weed out.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But the boss said: ‘No. Don’t pull up the weeds which are with the wheat, because when you pull them, you will also pull out the wheat.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 13:5:
- Uma: “Relatives, you examine your own hearts [to see] whether your faith in Kristus is true/genuine. Look at your own hearts. Isn’t it clear to you, relatives, that Kristus Yesus dwells in your hearts? I hope your faith doesn’t turn out to be just a lie. [lit., Don’t-don’t your faith later just a lie.]” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Really think and see if you truly trust in Isa Almasi or not. Don’t you know that Isa Almasi dwells there in your liver? If he is not there, that means it is not true that you trust in him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Check up on your breaths so that you might know whether your faith in Christ is true or not. Don’t you know that Christ lives in you? And if not, then your faith is false and Christ has not accepted you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It shouldn’t be us (excl.) that you are investigating but rather yourselves so that you will confirm whether your faith is true. Because it ought to be easy for you to distinguish that Cristo Jesus is in you unless it is confirmed that contrary-to-expectation you have no faith.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What’s good (to do) is that you question-yourselves-thoroughly, as to whether your believing/obeying Cristo is genuine. Verify it in your own selves. Are you not aware that Cristo Jesus has-settled-down-living-in/with you, unless you have not truly believed/obeyed?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning how you walk now, judge for yourselves whether your faith is good or not. Know very well whether you walk with Jesus Christ or not. If you do not walk with Jesus Christ, then you are not truly a real believer then.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:70:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘I myself am the one who chose you twelve. But even so, one of you will become a devil.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to them, ‘You are already my twelve disciples which I have chosen. But one of you has a demon/is demon possessed.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to them, ‘As for me, I chose you, the twelve, however one of you is a servant of Satan.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus said, ‘I am the one who chose you twelve, isn’t that so? But there is emphatically one of you who is demon-possessed.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Isn’t it so,’ said Jesus, ‘you twelve people are the ones chosen by me? However it’s true, there is indeed one of you who still has an evil mind/inner-being.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said, ‘I have chosen you twelve people. And there is one among you who does the will of the devil.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 14:3:
- Uma: “Like this the story of the death of Yohanes the Baptizer. King Herodes took/stole-away Herodias, the wife of his own relative/brother named Filipus. Many times Yohanes admonished/accosted Herodes for his behavior, he said to him: ‘You may not marry that woman! Your behavior transgresses the Law of Musa!’ Because of that, Herodes ordered his soldiers to catch/arrest Yohanes. They did catch him, tied him up and imprisoned him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For Sultan Herod had commanded hep that Yahiya be arrested and bound and put in prison. It happened like this: Sultan Herod and his sister-in-law Herodiyas desired each other, and-what’s-more his younger brother Pilip, the husband of Herodiyas was still alive. So-then when they married (lit. became one) Yahiya scolded the sultan. Yahiya said to him, ‘It is not right/allowed that you are one with the wife of your brother. You are sinning.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason why John was killed was because he criticized Herod, saying, ‘You have broken the law because you married Herodias,’ he said. Herod was the brother-in-law of Herodias, because she was the spouse of his younger sibling Felipe and because of that criticism of John, Herod had him seized and put in prison. He would have killed John, but he was afraid of the Jews because they knew that John was inspired of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Herod said this because of what had happened before. Because he had had Juan caught and had him imprisoned in-chains due to Juan’s having admonished/advised him. Because Herod, he had married his sister-in-law Herodias who was his younger-sibling Felipe’s wife. And Juan had repeatedly said that it was against the law that he marry her.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Herodes spoke like that because in the past, he had been the one who had caused Juan to be arrested, bound and imprisoned because of Herodias who was the wife of Felipe who was the brother of that Herodes.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “In the days now gone by, this Herod ordered John to be arrested, chained and jailed. He got after him, because John had said to Herod that it was bad for him to live with his sister-in-law Herodias who had been the wife of his brother Philip.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Galatians 1:23:
- Uma: “They just heard the words of others who said: "The person who used to persecute us, it is he who is preaching the religion which he wanted to wipe-out before."” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They had only been told that I was the person who persecuted them before/formerly in order that they no longer trust in Isa Almasi. But now – it was said – I proclaim that people ought to trust Isa Almasi.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “People had told them that I, who had in former days arrested believers in Jesus, now I was preaching the very doctrine which was the reason I arrested them in order to have them abandon it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They had only heard-reported that the one who hardshipped them previously in order that believers in Cristo would cease-to-exist koma, he was now preaching that-aforementioned faith/belief.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They had only heard-the-news that the one who formerly hounded them in order to persecute them because of their believing/obeying Cristo now was teaching this belief/obedience that he wanted to destroy formerly.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “They had only heard what was said. The people said, ‘The man who hunted for ways of persecuting believers in past days, now it is said that he tells people to believe in the Christ whom he did not want the people to believe in before.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 7:31:
- Uma: “Many in the midst of the people believed in him, they said: ‘He is surely the Redeemer King, because he has done so many miracles.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But many people who were there believed in Isa. They said, ‘Really this is the Almasi. For no person can do wonder-causing deeds exceeding the deeds of this Isa.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were many people who believed that Jesus was the prophesied king chosen by God, and they said, ‘Jesus is the king because no one else can do greater miracles than those that he does.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “As for the many-people however, many of them believed in him, and they said, ‘Is not this one the coming Messiah? Because probably no one is able-to-do more-amazing-things than what this-one has-been-doing.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But there were indeed many who acknowledged as true what he said. They were saying, ‘What do you suppose, if/when that one meant by Cristo comes here, would he be able to do signs which are amazing things which are greater than this person can do?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now many people believed Jesus was the Christ. They said, ‘This man here, now does the signs just like it is said that Christ will do them when he comes.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 14:35:
- Uma: “When the citizens knew that Yesus was in their city, they spread-the-news going to nearby towns, with the result that all the sick people were carried to Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa was recognised by the people of that place, therefore they sent word to the sick in the surrounding places and they brought them to Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus was recognized by the people there. And they notified the sick people in the neighboring towns. Then people arrived bringing to Jesus the people who had sickness.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “the inhabitants there recognized Jesus. Therefore they had-the sick-ones from all the nearby towns -called so that they would bring-them to him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus was recognized by the people there. They immediately spread the news to all their neighborhood that Jesus had arrived. That’s why (people) kept coming bringing sick ones.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When the people of that area knew that Jesus was there, then to everywhere went out the word. They told them to bring the sick people to Jesus.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
