Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 9:12:
- Uma: “Yesus heard their words, that is why he said to them: ‘A person who is not sick does not need to be treated/medicated. It is just a sick person who needs to be treated/medicated.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Isa heard this, he said to them, ‘It is the sick people who go to the doctor. As for those who are well, they don’t have a need to go to the doctor.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus heard this and he answered with a parable, he said, ‘He who has no sickness doesn’t need to have himself medicined, but rather only the ones who has a sickness.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Jesus heard what-they -questioned and he said parabling, ‘It is not the healthy people who need someone-to-medicine-them but rather the sick.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus heard that question of theirs, therefore he was the one who answered, saying, ‘The ones who have illnesses, they really are the ones who need a doctor. Not those who have no illness.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus heard what was said to the learners and said to those who were talking with them: ‘It is the people who are sick to whom the doctor comes. He doesn’t come to the people who are healthy.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 4:12:
- Uma: “So, we (excl.) constantly face death. But we (excl.) don’t-mind / It doesn’t-bother us (excl.), for because of that work of ours(excl.), you get good life forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then, we (excl.) endure persecution up to/including that we (excl.) almost die because of our (excl.) preaching so that this becomes your good (lit. comes home for your good), because finally you will live forever.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “That’s why we are never free from danger of death, because we spread the Good News. However, never mind this because by means of this, it is possible for you to have eternal life.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore it is true that we (excl.) are facing death, but the result of it is that you gain life that has no end.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But, even though death is always like chasing us, the outcome is that you can now find life without end.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “While the people search how to kill me, I, while I live, search for how to have you meet up with the new life.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 3:30:
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “It is necessary that it be known that he is the great one. But it is necessary that I be thought nothing of.”
- Aguaruna: “He will be more surpassing. I will not be great, I will be small.”
- Isthmus Mixe: “He must be honored by many people, but I will no longer be honored.”
- Chol: “Christ must be the more important one. I must be made less important.”
- Xicotepec De Juárez Totonac: “It is necessary that they follow Jesus more and more and that they follow me less and less.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
- Uma: “He is the one whose life must be made high, and my life must be made low.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He has to become greater/more honored but I have to become lower/less,’ said Yahiya.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For example, if there is a man being married, the bride belongs to him. As for the wedding arranger, his breath is very good when he hears that bridegroom talking with the one he has married. It’s like that also because it pleases me very much if many follow Jesus,’ said John. ‘It is necessary that mine should be removed.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It is necessary that he be-made-greater (lit. high) while-simultaneously I become-lower.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s necessary that he becomes praiseworthy/highly-praised, but as for me, I just become insignificant.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “That one, the people must know better that he surpasses, and I must be second more.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:6:
- Uma: “Go first/for-now to our (incl.) fellow Yahudi people descendants of Israel. They are like lost sheep.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But go only to the tribe of Isra’il. For they are like lost sheep.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You just preach to our companions, the descendants of Israel, They are like sheep that are lost.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “but rather go to our companions the descendants of Israel who are as-if lost sheep.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “On the contrary, where you are to go is to our fellow Judio, who are like lost sheep.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Rather go to where the Jews live. Because the Jews are like sheep who are lost.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 6:5:
- Uma: “We(excl.) are beaten, we (excl.) are imprisoned, people throng together to attack us (excl.). We(excl.) work hard, sometimes we (excl.) can’t sleep, sometimes we (excl.) can’t eat.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “We (excl.) have experienced whipping and imprisonment. Sometimes people come and cause trouble/drive us (excl.) away. We often work hard. Sometimes we (excl.) cannot sleep and we (excl.) don’t eat.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “We were beaten; we were inprisoned; we were harmed by those causing a riot; there was a time when we worked too hard and we lost sleep and we were hungry also.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “These are some of the hardships that we (excl.) have experienced. How many times we (excl.) have been whipped and imprisoned and rioted-on! We (excl.) have worked until we (excl.) were exhausted, and we (excl.) have also endured hunger and fatigue-from-loss-of-sleep.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “in what we (excl.) have experienced which is having been whipped, imprisoned, and set-upon by crowds of people whose anger was unabating, and in our (excl.) exceedingly difficult work which includes lack-of-sleep and hunger.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “There are times then the people beat me. There are times when I am jailed. There are times when people have mobbed me. There are times when I work without letup. There are times I don’t have time to sleep. There are times when I hunger.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999): “I am beaten, languish in prison, work myself to exhaustion, find no sleep, get nothing to eat.”
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:26:
- Uma: “Yesus said: ‘I am the one, who is speaking to you (sing.) now.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said, ‘I am hep he, the one talking with you.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered, ‘I who am speaking to you, I am the one titled Christ.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘And I am indeed that-one, who is conversing-with you (sing.),’ Jesus said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘That one you are talking about, it is I who am speaking with you now,’ said Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said, ‘That Christ you speak about is I.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 10:38:
- Uma: “A person who becomes my follower can be compared to a person who carried-on-shoulder his cross and follows my footsteps, because he will definitely received suffering or maybe he will really be killed because of his following Me. So, whoever is not ready to get suffering like that, he is not worthy to become my follower.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If a person does not follow me and does not carry the beam/post for killing him, that means if he does not submit to endure persecution even unto death, he is not worthy/fit to become my disciple.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Whoever doesn’t disciple me and he doesn’t carry his cross, which is to say, he is afraid to obey my commands because they might be the death of him, he is not fitted to be called my disciple.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whoever also does not carry-his cross -on-his-shoulder so that he will then go-with me, he is not worthy to be counted as my disciple.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And whoever won’t shoulder his cross and follow me, he really isn’t acceptable as one of my people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The person who does not want to follow me because he is afraid of being killed is the person who does not deserve to follow me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of 2 Corinthians 8:3:
- Uma: “I have seen the bigness of their hearts in giving [i.e., they are proud to do it]. They give according to their ability, or even more than their ability. Nobody forced them, it was out of the whiteness of their own hearts [i.e., out of grace, their own initiative].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I can witness that they gave up to their capacity and even above their capacity. It was just their own wish/desire that they gave.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I can testify that they did as much as they could do, and even more than they could do, in giving and it came from the whiteness of their liver (from the goodness of their heart).” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I can confirm that what they gave, it was not merely according to what they were able to give but rather more than they were able. And they were the ones who decided (lit. were the owners of the thought) to give-it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I am really testifying here that they did not just give what they were able to, but rather they exceeded it. And it’s not that they were forced, this was really their own desire.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I give a true testimony that the help they give is given with all their hearts. Concerning what they decided to give, even more above that is what they gave.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
