Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Matthew 26:12)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:12:

  • Uma: “She poured this oil on me to prepare my body ahead-of-time for when I will be buried [lit., for my-being-buried later].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “She poured this fragrant oil out on my body to prepare me for when I am buried.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “She perfumed me so that my body might be prepared for my burial.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “She poured-out this perfume on me so that she would prepare my body for my burial.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “For she has already poured perfume on my body as if preparing it already for my burial.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Concerning this oil the woman poured on my head, thus has happened what should happen when I am buried.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 26:13)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:13:

  • Uma: “Indeed I tell you: all over the world, wherever the Good News is spread, what this woman has done will be told, it won’t be forgotten.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Truly I tell you,’ said Isa, ‘wherever in the whole world the good news will be proclaimed, what the woman did to me will also be told, for the people to remember her.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Remember this, that she cannot be forgotten, for wherever this Good News is spread throughout the whole world, what she did to me will also be told.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “This that I tell you is true that wherever on earth the good news is preached, what this woman did will also be related as people’s remembrance of her.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “This which I will say to you really is true. Wherever this Good News will be taught here under the heavens, this which she did to me will indeed be mentioned as a memorial to her.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Truly I tell you that wherever the good news is preached all over the world, also what this woman has done for me will be told. Thus will she be remembered.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 26:14)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:14:

  • Uma: “At that time, one of his twelve disciples who was named Yudas Iskariot went to the leading priests.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then after that Judas Iskariyot, one of the twelve disciples of Isa, went to the leading priests.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And at that time, one of the twelve disciples, the one who was named Judas Iscariot, he went to the chief priests.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, went to the leaders of the priests,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And then as for one of Jesus’ disciples who was Judas Iscariote, he went to see the chiefs of the priests.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve learners of Jesus, went to talk with the chief priests.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 26:15)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:15:

  • Uma: “He said to them: ‘If I hand-over Yesus into your hands, what will you give me?’ They counted thirty silver coins and gave it to him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “He said to them, ‘How much money will you give me if I hand over Isa to you.’ They paid him thirty pieces hard money, real silver.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He said to them, ‘How much will you pay me if, through me, Jesus is handed over to you?’ And they counted out thirty pieces of silver, and they gave them to him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “and he said, ‘How-much can you give-me -as-wages if I turn-over Jesus to you?’ And they counted-out thirty silver-coins as his wage.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “He said, ‘What will you give to me if I help you to arrest Jesus?’ He immediately had counted for him the sum of thirty in their money.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “He said: ‘How much money do you want to give me so that I will turn Jesus over to you?’ he said. The priests then gave him thirty monies of silver.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 26:16)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:16:

  • Uma: “From then on, Yudas hunted for a good opportunity to sell Yesus to his enemies.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “After that Judas looked for a good time for handing Isa over to them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And from that time Judas looked for a way so that he might deceive Jesus so that those people could seize him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “And beginning with that, he was-looking-for his opportunity to betray Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, from then on, Judas kept on looking for his opportunity so that he could hand Jesus over to those wanting to arrest (him).” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Therefore Judas searched for how he could turn Jesus over to the priests.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 26:17)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:17:

  • Uma: “On the first day of the Feast of Bread that is not Yeasted, Yesus disciples came to him and said: ‘Lord, where do you (sing.) want us to prepare the Paskah food that we (incl.) will eat?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then the first day of the festival/celebration had been reached when they ate bread not mixed with yeast/for-rising. The disciples went to Isa, they said, ‘Sir, where do you want us to go to prepare for you the meal for this celebration/remembrance feast?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And on the first day of the feast of eating bread that had no yeast, Jesus’ disciples went to him and said, ‘Where is the house where you want us to cook so that your supper of the Feast of Passover might be prepared?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When the first day of the fiesta called Bread That Has No Yeast/Baking-powder arrived, Jesus’ disciples went to him and inquired, ‘Where do you (sing.) want us (excl.) to go prepare what we will eat for the fiesta called Passed-By?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “The day now came which was the beginning of the Fiesta of Bread Without Raising-agent. Jesus’ disciples approached him. They questioned saying, ‘Where do you want us to prepare-the-meal which is the custom of this evening meal which is the Fiesta of Passed-by?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Now began the feast, the days when is eaten the bread which is without leaven. Jesus’ learners approached him and said: ‘Where do you want us to prepare the supper for celebrating the Passover?’ they said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 26:18)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:18:

  • Uma: “He said to them: ‘Go into the village to the house of so-and-so, say to him like this: ‘The Teacher says: My time has come. I want to spend the Paskah big day in your (sing.) house with my disciples.’ ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Isa said, ‘Go to the town to that certain man and say to him, ‘The teacher says he wants to feast with his disciples there in your house for the Celebration of Remembrance, because his death is near, he says.’ ‘” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Jesus said that they should go to the town to a person he had already told them about, and say to that person that our Teacher says, ‘My dying is soon, I and my disciples will have supper here because this is the Feast of the passover.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Jesus said, ‘Go to the place of that man that we know in the city, and say to him, ‘Our Lord said that it is almost the time that God designated for him. We (excl.) reportedly (i.e. reported from Jesus’ instructions) will come here to your (sing.) house so that here is where-we (excl.) -will-eat-with him at the fiesta.’ ‘” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied, saying, ‘Go to the city. Find this man (identity assumed known). Say, ‘Our(excl.) Teacher says, today the determined time is close now. I want that here in a room of your house is where all of us (excl.), I and my disciples, will eat this evening meal which is Passed-by.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said to the learners: ‘Go (dual) to the town there, arrive at the house of a man. Tell him: ‘The Teacher says: Now the hour has come. There in your house I must celebrate the feats of Passover with my learners, he says, you will tell him.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 26:19)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:19:

  • Uma: “Yesus’ disciples did go like he had ordered them to, and they prepared the Paskah food.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then his disciples went there and did as Isa had told them and they prepared there their food for the feast of Remembrance.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus’ disciples did what he told them, and they prepared the passover supper.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “So then, his disciples obeyed what he instructed them and they went and prepared what they would eat for the fiesta.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “The disciples carried-out that errand of Jesus. There is where they prepared that evening meal.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “The learners to whom Jesus spoke did what he told them. At the house where they arrived, there they prepared the supper for Passover.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)