Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 27:1:

• Uma: “Very early in the morning, all the leading priests and elders of the Yahudi people decided: Yesus must be killed.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “When it was morning all the leaders of the priests and the elders planned/discussed as to how they should kill Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when morning came, all of the chief priests and the elders of the Jews, they decided on a way so that it would be permitted to kill Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “In the early-morning (lit. its getting-light), all the leaders of the priests and the elders of the Jews had-a-meeting, and they agreed-together on the way they would have-Jesus -killed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “At dawn, the chiefs of the priests and the important tribal leaders discussed, and agreed how the death of Jesus would be.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Early in the morning there gathered the chief priests with the men who led in the church. They planned what to do about having Jesus killed.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 27:2:

• Uma: “So they bound him and took him to bring-his-case-up-to Governor Pilatus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “So-then when they had finished planning/discussing they bound Isa and brought/took him to hand him over to Pilatus, he was the governor of the Roma tribe.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They tied up Jesus with chains, and they delivered him to Pilate who was the governor.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “After-that they bound him and they went and handed-(him) -over to Gobernador (Governor) Pilato.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “And then they tied up Jesus and took him to Pilato who was the Romano governor.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Then they tied Jesus to take him to Pilate, the governor.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 27:3:

• Uma: “As for Yudas, who had sold Yesus to his enemies, when he knew that Yesus was to be punished to death, he became sorry/remorseful. He [immediately] went to the leading priests and the elders of the Yahudi people, he returned to them the thirty silver money/coins,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “When Judas knew, the one who betrayed Isa, that Isa had already been judged to die, he really regretted and he went to the leaders of the priests and the elders returning the thirty pieces of hard money.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for Judas, the one who betrayed Jesus, when he learned that they said that the actions of Jesus were worthy of having him killed, he regretted, and he went to the chief priests and the elders because he would fain return the thirty pieces of silver.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “As for Judas who had betrayed Jesus, when he found-out that Jesus had been condemned to die, he regretted/repented-of what he had done and he returned the thirty silver-coins to the leaders of the priests and elders” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “When Judas observed/discovered that Jesus had been sentenced to death, he felt sorry. What he did was he returned to the chiefs of the priests and important tribal leaders that thirty which was their bribe/gift to him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Judas who had betrayed Jesus knew now that the people planned to kill Jesus and he was very sad at heart. He went to the chief priests and the men who lead at the church. He returned the thirty monies of silver which he had been given.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 27:4:

• Uma: “and he said: ‘I have sinned! I sold a person who wasn’t wrong/guilty, with the result that he has been condemned to death!’ They answered him: ‘What’s that to us! [lit., What do we say!] The guilt/wrong is yours(s)!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “He said to them, ‘I have sinned because I have betrayed a man who has no sin and-what’s-more he will soon be killed.’ They answered him, they said, ‘We don’t have anything to do with that anymore. It is your problem now.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘I have sinned,’ he said, ‘because the man you said that his actions were worthy of having him killed, he has no sin, and I am the one who turned him over to you.’ And they answered, ‘We have no concern with that. That’s your trouble.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “and he said, ‘I have sinned, because I betrayed a person who has no sin and here he has been condemned to die.’ ‘It makes no difference (lit. it has no evil) to us (excl.),’ they said in reply. ‘You (sing.) are the one responsible for that.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “He said, ‘I really have sinned. I have traded a person to death who has no sin.’ ‘Oh, what business is that of ours(excl.)? You are responsible,’ was their answer.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “He said: ‘I have committed a sin to deliver to you this man who is innocent, so that he will be killed,’ he said. But the priests said to Judas: ‘What you say is of no importance to us. It’s your own business.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 27:5:

• Uma: “From there, Yudas threw down the money in the House of God, and he went to commit-suicide.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “So-then Judas threw the money into the big prayer-house and left. He went and hanged himself so that he died.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the money, Judas threw it scattering it into the worship place. And he left there for it had entered into his breath to commit suicide, and then he hanged himself.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “So then Judas threw the money into the Temple and left. Then he went and hanged-himself.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Well since it was like that, Judas tossed that money down inside the Templo, and then he went and put a noose around his neck and committed-suicide.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Judas threw down the money in the church. He went, then tied a rope around his neck and hung himself and died.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 27:6:

• Uma: “The leading priests picked up the money and said: ‘This money is money traded for blood. According to the laws of religion, money like this may not be put in the box putting-place for money offerings in the House of God.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “So-then the leaders of the priests picked up the money and they said, ‘This money cannot be added to the money of the prayer-house for this money was wages for killing a man.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the chief priests, when they got the money, they said, ‘We break the law if we put it into the money container here in the worship place, because this was paid in order to kill a person.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The leaders of the priests picked up that money and they said, ‘Our law prohibits that this be added to the money of the Temple, because it used-in-paying-for the life of a person.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “The chiefs of the priests picked up that money. They said, ‘It really is against the law to put this money into the storage-place here in the Templo, because as for this, it is the payment for a person’s life.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “There at the church the chief priests picked up the money which Judas had thrown down and said among themselves: ‘Now we can’t mix this money with the offering because it is the wages of the person who betrayed one to death.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 27:7:

• Uma: “They reached a decision [lit., their commands became the same], that money was used to buy land that is called Land of the Pot Maker, so that that land could be used to bury people who weren’t Yahudi people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “They planned/discussed/agreed that they would use that money to buy land from the people who make clay pots and make that into a graveyard for foreigners/strangers.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore they discussed what they should do with it and there was land which was called the Land of the Potter, and they bought it with this money, so that it might be a burying place for people who are not Jews.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Then they conversed as to where/how they could use the money, and they decided to use-it-to-buy the land of one who made pots in order that they would make-it-into a cemetery for strangers/visitors.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “They agreed to use it to buy the land of a worker in clay, for they would make it a burying-place for strangers/visitors.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “They talked it over, and decided that this money could buy a land called the Potter. They wanted that the land they bought would be a place to bury people who died and were not natives of there.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 27:8:

• Uma: “That’s why that land is called Land of Blood until this time.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Therefore that (piece of) land is called ‘Blood Land’ until now, because the money for buying it was wages for killing.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore they named that land Land of Blood, which is to say, Land Bought with money paid to kill a person.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Therefore that land, it is called/designated the Land that was Paid-for with Blood until today.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “That’s why that land is called by them Land/ground of Blood to this day.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Therefore this land was called Blood.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)