Raising a Girl (image)

Painting by Wang Suda 王肅達 (1910-1963),
Copyright by the Catholic University Peking, China

Text under painting translated from Literary Chinese into English:
Raising a Girl
Proof that Jesus is the true God

Image taken from Chinese Christian Posters . For more information on the “Ars Sacra Pekinensis” school of art, see this article , for other artworks of that school in TIPs, see here.

complete verse (Matthew 9:26)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 9:26:

  • Uma: “That news was spread all over the village and to all the villages that were near.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then, the news about this became known in that whole place/country.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And this happening was heard in all the surrounding towns.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “That being so, this that Jesus did was reported-from-one-to-another in all the nearby towns.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Without anything further, the news about that which had happened spread all over that place.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Concerning what Jesus did, the word went all over that area.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Translation commentary on Matthew 9:26

And the report of this went (Jerusalem Bible “And the news spread…”) may need to be restructured so as to indicate who spread the news, “People began to spread the news about this” or “People began to tell (each other) about this.”

All that district (Good News Translation “that part of the country”) hints that the author did not live there at the time of his writing. District can be “region” or “area.”

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on the Gospel of Matthew. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1988. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .

SIL Translator’s Notes on Matthew 9:26

9:26

This verse gives a summary of the results of this healing. People told the story of this miracle throughout the whole region. Some languages have a special way of introducing this type of result at the end of a true story. For example:

And the result is that this news spread…
-or-

And so the news of this spread…

And the news about this spread: The word this refers to the miracle of raising the dead girl. People told others about this miracle so that people throughout a large area heard about it.

Here are some other ways to translate this clause:

News of this spread (New International Version)
-or-
The report of this miracle swept (New Living Translation (2004))
-or-
People told others about this miracle

throughout that region: The Greek word that the Berean Standard Bible translates as region also means “land, district.” It probably refers to the district of Galilee.

Here are some other ways to translate this phrase:

through all that district (English Standard Version)
-or-
through the entire countryside (New Living Translation (2004))

-or-

throughout all the nearby villages

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