Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 27:55:
Uma: “There, there were also many women to were watching from far off. They were the women who had followed and helped Yesus, beginning from his work in the land of Galilea.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Many women were also watching there from afar. They had followed Isa from Jalil and always helped him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were also there many women who were far off watching. They were Galileans who had come with Jesus to Jerusalem because they will help him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “There were also many women there who were looking-from-a-distance. They were the ones who went-with Jesus from Galilea and had been helping him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “At a distance, many were the women who were viewing. Coming from Galilea, these women had gone along with Jesus serving him in his needs.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Many women were standing far off to look upon all that happened. These women had come from Galilee to follow Jesus as he went to Jerusalem. These also had helped him, giving what he had needed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Thessalonians 2:4:
Uma: “No matter how the words of others are, don’t allow yourselves to be deceived. For before that day comes, these two things have to happen first: many people will retreat from their faith, and an evil person will appear who will oppose God. That evil person, he will be proud [lit., his heart will be high], he will put himself [lit., his life] ahead of all that is worshipped on earth. And he will dare [emphatic] to sit in the House of God, saying that he is God. So, it is certain ahead of time that he will be thrown into hell.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “This person will be an enemy of everything that-is-considered-God and everything worshiped by mankind. He will make himself greater than all of them and even/including in the prayer-house of God he will go and sit down and say that he is God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He will resist and try to make himself higher than anything people consider to be God and anything they worship. He will even sit in the worship place, the House of God, for he will say that he is God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “He will oppose God and all idols/false gods and whatever else people worship/honor and he will make-himself -higher (in rank, importance) than all of them. And he will go and sit-down in God’s temple saying that he himself is God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “What this one who will-appear-on-the-scene will do is, he will oppose all who are worshipped by people which they regard as their god. He will elevate himself that he now is the most important, far more than all of these. And furthermore, he will even enter the Templo of God, and then say that he is the one meant by God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “This person will be against all that people worship, even God he will be against. He will want that only he himself will be worshipped. He will sit in the church of God as though he himself were God. He will say, ‘I myself am God,’ he will say.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 1:18:
Uma: “(That Yudas bought land with the money which he received from his evil actions. On that land that he bought, he died falling, his stomach burst with the result that all the contents of his insides came out.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “(By the way, Sir Teopilus, Judas bought land hep with the money paid to him for his evil deed betraying Isa. When he had bought that land, he fell down there and he died. His abdomen burst and his intestines came out.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “(Now as for Judas, that which was paid him for his wickedness, he bought some land with it, and he fell forward and his stomach burst open and his intestines burst out.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “This is what happened to Judas. The money that was paid-as-wage to him for the bad-thing that he did, he used-it-to-buy some land, and that’s where he went to kill himself. He fell-from-a-height and then his body burst and his innards came-out.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “(Well as for this Judas, that reward/bribe which he received for that evil which he did which is like he traded Jesus, it was used to buy a piece of land. And what happened to Judas was, he fell and his abdomen split open. What else but all the contents of his abdomen came out.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Isthmus Mixe: “That fellow obtained money because of his wickedness. Then he went to hang himself. Then his belly split open. All of his intestines come out. Then people bought land with the money.”
Morelos Nahuatl: “He bought a piece of land. He paid for it with that money which they gave him for his sin. He fell on his face. His belly burst open and all his insides poured out.”
Eastern Highland Otomi: “A field was bought with the money Jesus was sold with. When Judas fell to the ground face downward, his stomach burst open and his intestines came out.
Rincón Zapotec: “They (indefinite) bought a field with the pay of the evil that he did…” (Source for this and three above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 1:1:
Uma: “This is the Good News, the story of the life of Yesus Kristus, the Child of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “This is the good news about Isa Almasi, the Son of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Isaiah, the former prophet of God long ago, wrote what God said to his Son, and that was the beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ, Son of God. God said, ‘There will be in the future a person whom I will cause to go ahead of you, and I will cause to announce that you will soon arrive.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “This is the beginning of the good news concerning Jesu Cristo the Child of God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “As for this, it tells the Good News concerning Jesu-Cristo, that he is the Son of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Timothy 1:1:
Uma: “This letter is from me Paulus, apostle [messenger] of Kristus Yesus. I became his apostle according to the command of God the King who lifts us from the punishment of our sins, and according to the command of Kristus Yesus, who is our hope.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “This letter is from me, Paul. I was commissioned by Isa Almasi to proclaim his message. I was commissioned by the command of God who is the one who saves/rescues us (incl.) and also by the command of Isa Almasi, the one who is our (incl.) hope/expectation.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for you, Timothy, who are like my own son because of your faith in Christ, I am writing to you. I am Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, which is to say, I am his servant. I was made an apostle by means of the command of God who is the One who delivered us from punishment, and by means of the command of Jesus Christ. He is the one whom we can trust. May God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ show you kindness and show you mercy and give you a peaceful situation.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “I am Pablo who am an apostle of Cristo Jesus, because that is what was commanded by God who saves us and by Cristo Jesus whom we hope/expect will do all we are waiting for.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Son (term of affection) Timoteo, there-(with-you) is my letter, I who am Pablo who am an apostle of Jesu-Cristo. This apostleship of mine, it was commanded by God the Father who is the source of our salvation, and Cristo Jesus whom we are trusting/relying-on, he being the strength/pledge of our assurance of salvation in the future.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “I am Paul, Jesus Christ’s representative. Those who appointed me are God, the Savior, and the Lord Jesus Christ. And we know that because of Jesus Christ there will be all that we are waiting for.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 2:24:
Uma: “You [emphatic] killed Yesus, but God made him live again. He freed him from the power of death, because he certainly could not stay dead.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But God caused him to be alive again. He was set free from the oppression/hardship of his death, because he could not really be governed by death.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However God set Jesus free (saved, rescued), and he raised him from the dead because it is not possible that death might keep him bound.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “But God, he made-him-alive again, because it was not possible that death could restrain him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “You really were able to cause this Jesus to be killed, but he was made alive again by God, for it isn’t possible/acceptable that he be restrained by death.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Chuj: “But God, he caused Jesus to come back to life again. He was able to come back to life because death had no effectiveness to Jesus.”
Xicotepec De Juárez Totonac: “God raised him from the dead. He took him out of the place of the dead because it was not possible for him to remain dead.”
Teutila Cuicatec: “But God brought him to life again, taking him out of the hand of death, because it was not possible that he should continue where death rules.” (Source for this and two above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 1:33:
Uma: “Many townspeople came and gathered in the yard at Simon’s house.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “And the people of that town, gathered outside that house.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Very many people there in the village were gathered in the yard of the house where Jesus was.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “All the inhabitants also gathered outside the house where he was.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “There in front of the house was full of people for the whole town of people were there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
