Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 23:34:
Uma: “Your ancestors killed many people whose behavior was upright, beginning with their killing Habel, a person whose behavior was upright long-ago, down-to [lit., arrive-arrive to] your killing Zakharia the child of Berekia, whom you killed in the yard of the House of God, between the house and the offering burning table [altar]. So, to you who live at this time, I will also send/order prophets, smart people and ones who will teach you my words. Some of them you will kill, some of they you will crucify, others you will beat in your houses of prayer, others you will chase to the villages they will flee to. In the end, you who live at this time will bear all the wrong/guilt of your elders who killed the upright people long ago.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “I tell you, I will send to you prophets and men of deep knowledge/wisdom and teachers. Some you will kill and some you will nail to the post. Some you will beat in your prayer-houses and follow them to the towns they are fleeing to.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because I tell you that I will send yet to you people inspired of God, and those whom God has given wisdom, and teachers. And you will kill some of them, and others you will nail to crosses, and others you will beat in your worshipping places, and you will pursue them to any place that they flee to.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Therefore I will send to you prophets and wise people and those who teach God’s word. You will kill some and nail others to the cross. Others yet, you will repeatedly-whip in your synagogues, and wherever they run-away to, you will chase them to hardship them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “For there will be prophets which I will send here to you and teachers who know the word of God. Some of them you will kill and others will be nailed to a cross. Others you will whip there in your worship-places and you will hound-them/search-them-out in whichever towns.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Now I will send prophets there where you live, I will send wise men, I will send teachers. Some of them you will kill, putting them on crosses. Some others you will hurt in the churches. Others you will persecute, and when they flee to go to other towns, you will go and hunt them out.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Philippians 3:10:
Uma: “My real desire [is], I want to know Kristus, I want to feel the power that made him cause him to live again from death. I want to receive suffering like he received, to the point that perhaps I die the same as he,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “That is only what I want, that I really know Almasi. That means I want to know the power which caused him to be alive again from his death and I want to endure like he endured the difficulties which came to him. I want/wish that I am just able to follow/obey God’s will like Almasi followed even until/including he died.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The only thing that makes me happy now is the knowledge I have about the customs of Christ and His giving me power, which is that power that was used to raise Him from the dead. I want also to share in the sufferings which He endured by abandoning my own desires just like He laid down his life.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “I have no other purpose but that I come-to-know Cristo properly and experience the power that was Cristo’s when he had come-to-life again. But not only that but rather that I also experience his suffering/hardship and join him in dying.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “What I am really after now is that I will know Cristo even better, and that I will experience in my life the strength of the supernatural-power which comes from him because he was made alive again. I really want to be able to share in the hardships which were experienced by Cristo, and as-it-were to be able to share also in his death for I am making myself like him in his obeying the will of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “What I want now is that I know well Christ. I want to encounter the power of God, that which was manifested when Christ was resurrected. Therefore like Christ did, in that he was killed, also I give up my life now, even though it means that I die.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 15:11:
Uma: “‘I say all that to you, so that your hearts are glad with the joy that is from me, and so that your joy is complete.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “‘The reason that I teach this to you is, so that you also experience the joy like/the same as (the joy) in my liver and that your joy is complete.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason I told you all of this is so that my joy might make you joyful and so that you might be very joyful.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “I tell you these-things in order that your happiness will be great like my happiness.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “I have told these things to you so that you may have a share in my firmly-grounded happiness, and you will be happy with happiness which has no lack.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “I am telling you this so that like I am happy you also may be happy. And every day you will be happy.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 24:27:
Uma: “For when I the Child of Mankind come again, my coming will be visible all over the world, like the shining of lightning that appears in the east and shines to the west.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “For I, the Son of Man, when I come, my coming will be seen like lightning that shines from the east to the west.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because I, the Older Sibling of Mankind, my return will be like lightning which suddenly flashes, lighting up all the sky from east to the west. It can be seen by everyone.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Because my return who am Child of a Person, it will be like the flashing/shining lightning that is visible from all directions.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Because in the same way in which the sky is lit up from east to west when it lightnings, that’s how my returning here will be, I who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human. It really will be observed by all people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Because when the day arrives when the Man who will come from heaven comes, then all the people will see him. Like when the lightning lightens above, people everywhere see it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Amele: “For as the lightning shines clearly in the sky from the sun’s coming up to the sun’s going down like that the time of the coming of the Son of Man will become clear.” (Source: John Roberts in this article )
Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 1:1:
Uma: “This letter is from me, Paulus, who was raised/lifted by God to become a messenger [apostle] of Kristus Yesus according-to / following his will, and from Timotius, our one-faith relative,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “This letter is from me, Paul and from our (incl.) sibling Timoteo. From the desire/will of God, I was commissioned by Isa Almasi being commanded to proclaim/preach his message.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for me Paul, and our (incl.) brother Timothy, we send our greetings to you there. I am an apostle sent by Jesus Christ because it was what God wanted.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “I am Pablo who am an apostle of Cristo Jesus according to what God wanted. My companion here is our sibling/cousin (henceforth brother) Timoteo.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Our (excl.) siblings in believing there in Colosas, there-(with-you) is our (excl.) letter, I Pablo who am an apostle of Cristo Jesus according to the determined-plan of God, and Timoteo who is also our sibling in believing. I am writing to you who are now united/tied-together with Cristo, you who have now been separated out by God as his people now, who truly believe/obey this Cristo. I am praying that hopefully with you always is the grace/mercy and peace of mind/inner-being which God our Father gives.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “I am Paul, whom God appointed to be a representative of Jesus Christ. Along with our brother Timothy.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Aguaruna: “It’s me. I am Paul. I am the one sent by Jesus Christ, because God said ‘do thus.’ Timothy, Jesus’ follower, he is also with me.” (Source: Larson 1998, p. 149)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 16:16:
Uma: “Yesus also said: ‘In just a while you will no longer see me. In just a little while more, you will see me again.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Isa said, ‘Not much longer and you will not see me any more. But after that not much longer you will see me again.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “In just a little time you will no longer see me, and in a short time after that you will see me again.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Jesus continued to say to his disciples, ‘It won’t be long and you won’t see-me. But it won’t again be long and you will again see-me.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “‘In just a little time,’ Jesus went on to say, ‘you will no longer see me. A little time will pass again and you will see me once more.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “It won’t be long until you will not see me. But also afterwards it won’t be long until you see me. Because I am going to heaven where my Father is.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 25:9:
Uma: “‘The wise ones answered: ‘There won’t be enough [poor us (incl.)]. Go first and buy some at the oil seller.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But the wise girls answered, they said, ‘Perhaps it will not be enough for all of us. Go to the store and buy oil.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then the wise ones answered, ‘It cannot be because it is not enough for all of us, the kerosene that we brought. Go to the store so you can buy kerosene.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “”It’s not possible,’ said the thoughtful-ones answering. ‘Our (excl.) reserve will not suffice for us all. You go to the store to buy (some).'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “‘Friend, this really can’t be shared with you (implies insufficient). Sorry about that. Probably you’d better just go to where it can be bought, so that you will have what you can put into your lamps.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “But the wise girls said in answer: ‘We can’t because if we give you the oil you need, then our lights won’t be able to burn. So now it is better that you go to where they sell oil and buy the oil you need,’ they said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Colossians 2:4:
Uma: “My purpose in saying this to you, [is] so that you will not be able to be deceived by people with words that make-you-smooth.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “The reason I say this to you is so that you are not fooled/deceived by people who speak as if what they say is really hitting-the-mark but it is not true.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I tell you this so that you might not be converted by anybody by means of arguments that seem to be right, but they are a lie.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “I have told you these-things so that you are not deceived by the untrue-things that clever reasoners (RL pilosopo –one who is quick to come up with clever-sounding arguments) are saying.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “I am speaking like this so that you will not be led astray by others, no matter how good is that talk of theirs which is their leading you astray.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “I tell you this word in order that no one will deceive you. Because there are people who speak beautifully in order to deceive.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
