Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:52:
- Uma: “Yesus said to him: ‘Sheathe your (sing.) sword! For whoever uses a sword to kill others, he will certainly be killed with a sword himself.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to him, ‘Put your sword back in it’s sheath. For whoever uses a knife/weapon (generic for any weapon, especially bladed ones) for killing/fighting, he will die by a knife/weapon.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to him, ‘Sheathe your bolo, because he who quickly takes up arms will die also through arms.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Jesus said-immediately, ‘Sheath that, because the one who uses a sword will die by a sword.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Jesus saw, he told him to stop. He said, ‘Sheathe that bolo of yours, for as for the one who kills-with-a-blade, what will kill him is indeed being-killed-with-a-blade.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said to this one: ‘Put up your machete. Because the person who kills with the machete will also with the machete be killed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:53:
- Uma: “Don’t you (sing.) know, if I requested-help of my Father, he would quickly send ten armies of his angels, or even more!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Don’t you know that if I asked help from my Father God, he would immediately send me thousands of his angels?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Evidently you don’t know that if I ask my Father God for help, he will send here thousands upon thousands of his messengers.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Don’t you (sing.) know that if I were to request help from my Father, he would immediately send more than seventy two thousand angels?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Don’t you know that if I want to ask for help, I could ask my Father for thousands and thousands of angels? He would immediately cause them to come here.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Don’t you know that if I ask my Father to help me, then my Father will send more than twelve groups of angels to help me?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:54:
- Uma: “But if we (incl.) oppose these who are arresting me now, the words written in the Holy Book long ago will not come to pass that say all this must happen to me.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But if I ask help, what God said in the holy-book would not be fulfilled, that all this has to happen.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘However,’ said Jesus, ‘if I ask him for help, the prophesied word of God written long ago will not be fulfilled. And it is necessary that this happen according to what was prophesied,’ he said.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But if I were to do that, how could what God caused-to-be-written be fulfilled which says that these-things must happen?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But if I ask to be helped, how would what was written in the word of God be fulfilled, which says that like this really will happen?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But should I do that, then it couldn’t happen like the word written in the Holy Book. Because concerning what I go through now, it is already written that it must happen.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:55:
- Uma: “At that time, Yesus also said to the many people: ‘Am I a bandit, that you need to come here with swords and clubs to arrest me! Every day I sat teaching in the House of God, why didn’t you arrest me then?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then Isa said to the crowds, ‘Is it that you mistakenly-think I am an outlaw that you have come here arresting me carrying swords and clubs? Every day I sat there in the big prayer-house teaching, but you did not arrest me there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Jesus said to the people, he said, ‘Am I a robber? For why are you armed with bolos and clubs to seize me? Everyday you can see me teaching the people in the House of God, so why didn’t you seize me there?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said to the many-people, ‘Am I do-you-suppose a criminal that you have come carrying swords and clubs to go arrest-me? Daily emphatically I sat in the Temple teaching, but you didn’t arrest-me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then Jesus faced those people. He said to them, ‘What’s this, as if I am rounding-people-up to appose the government, for you each have a weapon (usually a blade), clubs being what some have, coming to arrest me? Daily I was teaching there in the Templo but you didn’t arrest me there.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said to those who had come for him: ‘Do you think that I am a robber, that you bring machetes and clubs to arrest me? Haven’t I been there in your church day after day teaching the people? Couldn’t you have arrested me there?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:56:
- Uma: “But it must happen like this, so that what was written by the prophets long ago in the Holy Book comes to pass.’ After that, all of his disciples fled and left him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But now,’ he said, ‘this all happens so that it will be fulfilled what was written by the prophets in the holy-book.’ So-then all his disciples turned-their-back-on/forsook Isa and fled.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But now at last all of this is happening because the prophesies written long ago by the inspired ones of God are being fulfilled.’ And when Jesus had said that, his disciples left him and ran away.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But all these-things have happened in order that what God caused-the prophets -to-write would be fulfilled.’ Upon Jesus’ saying that, his disciples abruptly-fled and abandoned him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But this has happened so that what was written by the prophets would be fulfilled which they were caused to say.’ Without anything further, those disiciples ran away. He was left/deserted.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Yet what you do to me thus brings about the word which the spokesman for God wrote in the Holy Book’ he said. All of the learners of Jesus then deserted him, fleeing.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:57:
- Uma: “From there, the people who had arrested Yesus took him to the house of the Big Priest Kayafas. There the religion teachers and Yahudi elders gathered.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then Isa was brought by those who had arrested him to Kayapas, he was the leader priest. The teachers of the religious law and the elders also gathered there.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the people who arrested Jesus, they took him to Caiphas, the high priest. And there already the teachers of the law and the elders of the Jews were gathered.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Those who arrested Jesus, they took him to the house of Caifas the highest priest where-were-gathered the teachers of the law and the elders.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus was taken by those who arrested him to the house of Caifas, the Most-important Priest. Gathered there were the explainers of law and the important tribal leaders.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus was taken to where Caiaphas lived, the one who was the high priest. There at the house of this priest were gathered the teachers of the law, and those who led at the church.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:58:
- Uma: “Petrus followed from far off till he got to the yard of the Big Priest’s house. He went into the yard and sat with the guards, for he wanted to know what would happen to Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, Petros followed Isa but from far, until to the yard of the house of the leader priest. He entered the yard and sat down with the guards, for he wanted to see what the outcome would be.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Peter followed, however he was not very close. And when they arrived at the house of the high priest, Peter only went as far as the yard. And when he had come into the yard, he sat down in the midst of the guards because he will see what is going to happen to Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Now as for Pedro, he followed at a measurable distance (lit. measurable was the space between them) until he arrived at the yard of that-aforementioned house. Then he went and sat-down-with the guards to see what would happen to Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Pedro followed along behind Jesus (word implies keeping check, usually for safety) as far as to that house of the Most-important Priest. He went into the enclosed yard. Then he sat with the guards, so that he would observe/discover what would happen to Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now Peter had followed a long way behind the people who took Jesus. When he arrived at the house of the high priest, he went inside the courtyard. He sat down with the policemen there. He was waiting to see what would happen with Jesus.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 26:59:
- Uma: “At that time, the leading priests and all the religion judges [lit., sitters] gathered at Kayafas’s home. They hunted for false witnesses to accuse Yesus so he could be condemned to death.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then the leaders of the priests and the teachers of the law and the elders sought evidence for accusing Isa so that they could kill him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the chief priest and the elders of the Jews who were gathered there, they were looking for some way to convict him falsely so that they might kill him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “As for the leaders of the priests and the other leaders, they were looking for something-with-which-to-accuse Jesus even if it wasn’t true in order that that would be the basis-for-charges-against him so that they would have-him -put-to-death.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, the chiefs of the priests and all those companions of theirs who were members of the Sanedrin continued to search for ones to give-evidence against Jesus, so that they could get him killed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The chief priests and the men who led the Jews gathered together to find how to arrange some lies so they could say that Jesus deserved to die.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)