complete verse (Mark 10:29)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 10:29:

  • Uma: “Yesus said: ‘Indeed I tell you: whoever leaves his relatives, his mother or his father, his children or his house or his gardens because of following me, and because of the Good News,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “‘Yes,’ said Isa, ‘truly I tell you, if a person leaves his house or his siblings male-female, or his mother and father, or his children, or his land, if he leaves these because of his love for me and in order to be able to go and carry the good news,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said, ‘Don’t you forget that anyone who leaves his house, his brothers and sisters, his mother and father, his child and his lands in order to follow me and to spread the good news,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘Yes agreed,’ said Jesus, ‘and this that I say to you is true, that whoever leaves his house, his siblings/cousins, his father and mother, his children and his land due-to his being-joined to me and his preaching of the good news,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied, saying to them, ‘This is the truth which I will say to you, that there’s nobody at all who won’t be rewarded who can-leave (implies when necessary, not total desertion) his household, his siblings, his parents and children, or his livelihood, because of his serving me and spreading the Good News.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

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