Mark 9:38 - 50 in Mexican Sign Language

Following is the translation of Mark 9:38-50 into Mexican Sign Language with back-translations into Spanish and English underneath:


© La Biblia en LSM / La Palabra de Dios

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Juan dijo: “Maestro, nosotros, los doce discípulos vimos a otras personas que tenían adentro demonios y un hombre extraño habló en el nombre de Jesús y expulsó los demonios.

Nosotros, los discípulos, fuimos y dijimos: “Tú no estás junto con nosotros en el grupo, no puedes hablar en el nombre de Jesús, paralo.”

Jesús dijo: “No lo prohiban, dejanlo, las personas que hablan en mi nombre, en el nombre de Jesús, y hacen milagros ¿pueden después estar en contra de mi? No pueden, es imposible.

Si las personas no hablan en contra de mi es lo mismo como si fueran junto con nosotros.”

Jesús les advirtió: “Si uds, las personas que creen en Cristo, dan un vaso de agua a otra persona, les digo la verdad, seguramente Dios les dará un premio.”

Jesús les advirtió y les explicó otra cosa: “Los niños pequeños que crecen creyendo en mi, si otra persona insiste en tentarlos y los niños desvisan y pecan , huy, Dios lo castigará fuertemente.

Mejor que un piedra grande sea atado alrededor de su cuello y empujado en el mar y él se caiga en el agua, sería menos castigo.”

“Otro ejemplo: si las manos son una tentación a pecar, agarrando cosas, sería mejor cortar la mano y tener una mano tullida e ir al cielo.

Si rechazas que la mano sea cortado, porque la quieres conservar, es peor que vayas al fuego que no se puede apagar.

Otro ejemplo: si los pies son una tentación a pecar sería mejor cortar el pie y ser cojo e ir al cielo.

Si rechazas que tu pie sea cortado porque lo quieres conservar, es peor ser echado en el fuego que dura.

Otro ejemplo: si el ojo es una tentación a pecar, viendo cosas, sería mejor quitar el ojo y tirarlo y ser tuerto e ir al reino de Dios.

Si rechazas que el ojo sea tirado porque lo quieres conservar, es pero ser echado en el fuego con gusanos comiendo tu cuerpo, el fuego que dura y no se apaga jamás.

Mira, cuando el sacerdote mata un animal lo pone en el altar, agrega sal, y lo sacrifica para Dios, y Dios lo ve bien. En la misma manera las personas sufrirán para quitar el pecado y volver limpios.

Por ejemplo: sal que sabe rico, está bien, pero si otro sal es dejado por mucho tiempo y ya no sabe nada rico, no sabe de nada, ¿se puede otra vez hacer que el sal sepa rico? No, no sirve, ¿entienden?

Este sal es parecido a uds, a personas. Uds necesitan tener paz juntos.


John said: “Teacher, we, the twelve disciples, saw other people who had demons inside and a strange man talked in the name of Jesus and threw out the demons.

“We, the disciples, went up to him and said: ‘You are not in the group with us, you cannot talk in the name of Jesus, stop it.'”

Jesus said: “Don’t forbid it, leave him, the people who speak in my name, in the name of Jesus, and do miracles, can they later be against me? No they cannot, it’s impossible.

“If people don’t talk against me at all it’s the same as if they were with us.”

Jesus warned them: “If you, the people who believe in Christ, give a glass of water to another person, I tell you the truth, God will reward you.”

Jesus warned them and told them something else: “The little children who grow up believing in me, if another person insists on tempting them and they deviate and sin, wow, God will punish him severely.

“It would be better that a big stone were tied around his neck and pushed into the sea, and he would fall into the sea, it would be a lesser punishment.

˜Another example: if your hands are a temptation to sin, taking things, it would be better to cut off your hand and have an amputated hand and go to heaven.

“If you reject that your hand is cut off because you want to preserve it, it is worse if you are sent to the fire that cannot be extinguished.

“Another example: if your feet are a temptation to sin, it would be better to cut off your foot and be lame and go to heaven.

“If you reject the cutting off of your foot because you want to preserve it, it is worse being thrown into the lasting fire.

“Another example: if your eye is a temptation to sin, because of the things it sees, it would be better to take out your eye and be blind in one eye and go to the kingdom of God.

“If you reject your eye being thrown out because you want to preserve it, it is worse being thrown into the fire where worms eat your body, the fire that lasts and is never extinguished.

“Look, when the priest kills an animal and puts it on the altar, he adds salt and sacrifices it to God, and God sees that it is good. In the same way the people will suffer to take away the sin and become clean.

“For example, salt tastes good, it is good, but if there is other salt that has been left for a long time and does not taste good anymore, it does not taste of anything, can you then make the salt taste good again? No, it is of no use. Do you understand?

“This salt is like you, people. You need to have peace together.”

Source: La Biblia en LSM / La Palabra de Dios

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Mark 9:38-41 in Russian Sign Language

Following is the translation of Mark 9:38-41 into Russian Sign Language with a back-translation underneath:


Source: Russian Bible Society / Российское Библейское Общество

One of Jesus’ disciples named John said to Jesus:

— Teacher! We saw a man using your name to cast demons out of people. This man is not part of our circle, so we have forbidden him to do this.

Jesus said:

— Do not forbid him! If a person does miracles in my name, he will not speak ill of me. If a person is not against us, then he is for us. And if a person gives you drink because you are my disciples, I tell you for sure, God will reward him.

Original Russian back-translation (click or tap here):

Один из учеников Иисуса по имени Иоанн сказал Иисусу:

— Учитель! Мы увидели одного человека, который использует твое имя, чтобы изгонять бесов из людей. Этот человек не входит в наш круг, поэтому мы запретили ему.

Иисус сказал:

— Не запрещай ему! Если человек творит именем моим чудеса, не будет говорить плохое обо мне. Если человек не против нас, значит он за нас. И если человек даст вам напиться, потому что вы — ученики мои, то, говорю вам точно, Бог наградит его.

Back-translation by Luka Manevich

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inclusive vs. exclusive pronoun (Mark 9:40)

Many languages distinguish between inclusive and exclusive first-person plural pronouns (“we”). (Click or tap here to see more details)

The inclusive “we” specifically includes the addressee (“you and I and possibly others”), while the exclusive “we” specifically excludes the addressee (“he/she/they and I, but not you”). This grammatical distinction is called “clusivity.” While Semitic languages such as Hebrew or most Indo-European languages such as Greek or English do not make that distinction, translators of languages with that distinction have to make a choice every time they encounter “we” or a form thereof (in English: “we,” “our,” or “us”).

For this verse, translators typically select the inclusive form (including the disciples).

Source: Velma Pickett and Florence Cowan in Notes on Translation January 1962, p. 1ff.

complete verse (Mark 9:40)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:40:

  • Uma: “People who don’t oppose us, it means they are on our side.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “For a person who does not oppose us (incl.),’ he said, ‘takes our (incl.) side.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For the person who is not our enemy helps us.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because the one who does not oppose us, he is helping us.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Because the truth is, if (a person) isn’t opposing me, he is supporting me/on my side.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

1st person pronoun referring to God (Japanese)

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Like a number of other East Asian languages, Japanese uses a complex system of honorifics, i.e. a system where a number of different levels of politeness are expressed in language via words, word forms or grammatical constructs. These can range from addressing someone or referring to someone with contempt (very informal) to expressing the highest level of reference (as used in addressing or referring to God) or any number of levels in-between.

One way Japanese shows different degree of politeness is through the choice of a first person singular and plural pronoun (“I” and “we” and its various forms) as shown here in the widely-used Japanese Shinkaiyaku (新改訳) Bible of 2017. The most commonly used watashi/watakushi (私) is typically used when the speaker is humble and asking for help. In these verses, where God / Jesus is referring to himself, watashi is also used but instead of the kanji writing system (私) the syllabary hiragana (わたし) is used to distinguish God from others.

(Source: S. E. Doi, see also S. E. Doi in Journal of Translation, 18/2022, p. 37ff. )

See also pronoun for “God”.

Translation commentary on Mark 9:40

Exegesis:

kata with the genitive meaning ‘against’ (3.6; 11.25; 14.55, 56, 57).

huper (14.24) with the genitive ‘for,’ ‘in behalf of.’

Translation:

Against us … for us would seem to be simple enough, but prepositions such as ‘against’ and ‘for’ do not exist in some languages, and the entire concept must be shifted into verb constructions, e.g. ‘the man who does not fight against us is on our side,’ ‘the man who does not work against us is helping us,’ ‘for he goes with us, who is not against us’ (Batak Toba), or ‘he who does not look mean at us is ours’ (Kekchi).

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on the Gospel of Mark. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1961. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .