Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 24:38:
Noongar: “But he said to them, ‘Why are you frightened? Why don’t you believe in your hearts?” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
Uma: “Yesus said to them: ‘Why are you afraid and uncertain?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “But he said to them, ‘Why are you startled and why are you still doubting?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, Jesus said to them, ‘Why are you afraid of me? Why do you doubt me?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “So then he said to them, ‘Why are you afraid and doubting about me?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “That’s why Jesus said to them, ‘What are your minds/thinking agitated about? Why do you continue to be of two minds?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 6:22:
Uma: “‘Our (incl.) eye can be compared to a torch. If our (incl.) eye is good, our (incl.) sight/vision is clear.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Our (dual) eyes are figuratively the lamp of our (dual) body. If our (dual) seeing is clear, that means, if our (dual) works are straight/righteous, our (dual) whole body is like light.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Our (dual) eye, it’s like a lamp here in our body, because if our seeing is bright, which is to say, if our activity is righteous, it is as if our whole body is illuminated.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “‘The eye is like the light of people. Therefore if your (sing.) sight/viewpoint is good, it is as if your (sing.) mind is thoroughly lighted.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “I’ll also add something else, that what is like a lamp for the body is the eye. If it has no defect, of course your (sing.) whole sight is clear.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “When you open your eyes good, then you see the light. In like manner, if you open your understanding well, then you will know what is the good by which you must live.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Amele: “Jisas told them another talk, ‘The light of your body (is) your eye. If your eye lies good then all your body lies with light.'” (Source: John Roberts in this article )
Martu Wangka: “If you think to sit true to the Father, as a result of that, you will sit happy.” (Source: Carl Gross)
German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999) verses 22 and 23: “The eye is light for the whole body. When the eye is clear, the whole body is brightly illuminated; when it is dim, the body is dark. If your own light does not dispel the darkness within you, how great is the darkness outside!”
Following are a number of back-translations of 1 Corinthians 16:9:
Uma: “For here, there is much useful work, although there are also many who oppose [me].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Because there are still many people here who want to hear the message of God and I should proclaim to them even though many oppose me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because there are still many people here who want to hear the word of God, and my staying here has great value. However there are also many enemies of God here.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “because even though many are-opposing-me, I also have many opportunities to do work the outcome of which will be valuable.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “For many here want to listen to my teaching, and it is really having good effects. But many also are the opponents.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Because here in Ephesus I am able to speak much even though there are many who are against me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 1:19:
Uma: “Like this the testimony of Yohanes the Baptizer saying who Yesus is. The rulers of the Yahudi people in Yerusalem sent several priests and Lewi people to Yohanes. When they arrived at Yohanes, they asked: ‘The reason we (excl.) have come, is to ask you (sing.) who you (sing.) are. Are you (sing.) really the Redeemer King? ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “One day priests and helpers of the priests who were told-to-do-so by the leaders of the Yahudi in the city Awrusalam went to Yahiya to ask him who he was.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were some people, priests and descendants of Levi, who came to John the Baptist. They were sent by the leaders of the Jews from Jerusalem so that they might ask John who he was.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “On one-occasion, there were priests and descendants of Levi who went to where Juan was. The leaders of the Judio (Jews) in Jerusalem sent them to go inquire of Juan as to who he was.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Once there were some sent by the leaders of the Jews who were taga Jerusalem. The ones they sent were priests and Levita who were their helpers, the workers in the Templo, because they were being caused to ask Juan what he was. This is the testimony of Juan which was his answer to them.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “The Jews who were leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and their helpers. These went to John to question him about who he was.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Yatzachi Zapotec: “The important people of our nation of Israel in Jerusalem sent some priests to the man named John, along with some other people born in the family line of Levi, people whose responsibility it was to do the work in the important church of us Israelites. They sent the people to John in order that they might know who he was.”
Alekano: “When the Jews sent priests and those who were servants in the sacrifice house from Jerusalem place, when they went to John and asked him saying, ‘Who are you? Are you the Messiah?’, he told them his own character.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 7:21:
Uma: “‘Many people call me ‘Lord! Lord!’ but not all of them become God’s people/subjects in his Kingdom. Only the people who do my Father’s will become his people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “‘Not all who always utter my name will go to the ruling/kingdom of God, but only the people who follow/obey the wishes of my Father in heaven.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For there are people who will call upon me saying, ‘Lord, Lord.’ But not all of them can be ruled over by my Father God in heaven, but rather only those who do what God wants.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “‘Those who will be included in God’s ruling in heaven are not all those who say ‘Lord, Lord,’ but rather only those who are doing what my Father in heaven wants.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “It’s true that not all who call me, Lord/Chief, will be able to enter the kingdom which is in heaven, but on the contrary, only those who truly obey the will of my Father who is in heaven.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Concerning all those who will say to me that I am their Lord, not all of them will enter into where God rules. Those who actually will enter where God rules are the people who will do the will of my Father who is in heaven.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 1:17:
Uma: “But that plan of mine the other day [lit., yesterday] changed. Do you say/think that my word/promise is not dependable [lit., straight]? Do you say/think that I make my purpose according to my own wants, one time saying ‘Yes,’ turn-around and I say ‘No’?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “Now, because I did not proceed to come to you, that does not mean that I do not keep my word. My desire to go has not changed. Perhaps you think-mistakenly that my intentions come just from my desire, saying yes first and then no.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And since I could not do this, you suppose mistakenly perhaps, that my mind is always changing. Perhaps you thought mistakenly also, that my thinking is just like the thinking of a person whose evil desires control him. You thought mistakenly that when I said that I was coming there, that the thing that was really in my breath was that I would not come.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Since this plan of mine was not fulfilled, you perhaps think that I easily change-and-change my mind, but no. Neither do I plan like the worldly person who says ‘Yes,’ come-to-find-out what is truly in his mind is ‘No.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Well now, since I couldn’t carry out that plan of mine, maybe you’re thinking that I am an unstable fellow. Maybe you mistakenly-think that what I think is constantly-changing, like what the people do who only think of their own desires, who say ‘yes’ now, (and) later say ‘no.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “But now it happened that I could not go there. Do you think that it wasn’t true concerning what I said when I decided to go there? Is it possible that you can say that this word I said I would do is like the word spoken by the people who live here in the world in that they only say that they will do something but they know that they won’t do it?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 1:51:
Uma: “After that, Yesus also said: ‘These words of mine are really true: you will see the sky open and the angels of God going up and coming down to me, the Child of Mankind.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “And Isa said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, in the future you will see heaven open and you will also see the angels of God coming down and going up from me, the Son of Mankind.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said again to him, ‘I truly say to you that you in the future will see heaven opened, and I, the older sibling of mankind, you all will see the angels of God climbing up and coming down in front of me.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “Then he said to them, ‘This that I tell you is true that in-the-future you will see heaven open. And then you will see the angels of God going to heaven and coming-down on me who am Child of a Person.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “This is really the truth which I am telling you. You will see the sky/heavens open and angels of God, going up, going down, coming here to me who am the One From Heaven Born of Man.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “Again Jesus spoke, ‘Truly I tell you, you will see heaven opened and God’s angels going and coming where stands the Man who came from heaven.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:24:
Uma: “A big wind came suddenly stirring-up the lake, with the result that waves struck their boat. At that time, Yesus was asleep.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
Yakan: “So-then suddenly a strong wind blew, that’s why the boat was in danger of soon sinking but all the while Isa slept.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when they were in the middle (of the lake), suddenly the wind blew hard, and the boat was filling up with water from the waves. But Jesus was asleep.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
Kankanaey: “When they were riding, he fell-asleep. That being so, a swift wind suddenly-arrived and the waves repeatedly-splashed-into the boat and they were close to sinking.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Tagbanwa: “Suddenly/unexpectedly the wind blew with such force, when they were crossing over that lake. Their boat almost filled because of the size of the roughness. But as for Jesus, he was emph. asleep.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Tenango Otomi: “But there on the lake there arose a fierce wind. The waves arose, entering the boat. But Jesus was sleeping away.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
