Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 3:26:
- Uma: “So also in the kingdom of demons. If in the kingdom of demons there are disagreements and fights, that kingdom will not last long. That will be the end of it.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Therefore if the leader of demons opposes/fights-with his demon disciples/adherents his ruling will not last long but is coming to an end.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Therefore, if Satan is against his followers, his authority to control will not last long, but rather, it will soon be removed and will disappear.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The same also with Satan. If he is causing-his fellow evil-spirits -to-leave, it means that he is fighting them, and pretty soon he will have no ruling.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore if Satanas opposes himself, for he and his subjects are in conflict, his rule really won’t last. Isn’t it so that if it’s like that, it’s like he has already been defeated?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 3:27:
- Uma: “‘ Demons can be compared to a strong person. If we enter into the house of a strong person wanting to take the contents of his house, we must first bind him, and than we can carry off his stuff. So also if I expel demons, it means my power is greater than demons.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The demon is figuratively a strong man. Nobody can go and rob the house of a strong man, if he doesn’t first tie-up that strong man, and then he can rob.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I have defeated Satan; that’s why I can drive away his followers. For nobody can enter into the house of a strong man to steal his goods if he doesn’t first tie up the strong man. He must first tie him up and then he can plunder the goods of that strong man.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Satan can be compared to a strong person, because no one can enter his house to steal his possessions if he will not first tie-him -up. Then he will be able to run-off-with his possessions.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But I have defeated Satanas already, that’s why I can drive out evil spirits. For no-one can enter the house of a person who is strong to plunder his possessions if he doesn’t first tie up that person. Well, of course if he is now tied up, his house can now be plundered.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 3:28:
- Uma: “‘Indeed I say to you: all of man’s sins and their words of rejecting can be forgiven.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Truly I say to you,’ said Isa, ‘God will forgive all sin of people and whatever bad/evil he speaks of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Remember this,’ says Jesus, ‘that God will forgive people of any sin and anything they say in rejection against him, however,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘This that I tell you is true that any (lit. even what) sin of a person is able to be forgiven and anything he says to speak-evil-of another.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What I will say to you really is true, that people will indeed be forgiven for whatever kind of sin and insult if they repent and drop/give-up it.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Mamaindé: (includes verses 29 and 30) “God will forgive their wickedness, he will forgive people, their wickedness, their slanders – he will forgive all of them. But the one who slanders, the one who slanders the Holy Spirit, that person he will never forgive as he is a person who slanders the Holy Spirit, he will never forgive. God will never forgive as he is a person who slanders the Holy Spirit, he will never forgive his badnesse, not disappearing, he will always be ashamed. He will always be ashamed. He said, Jesus said. Why did Jesus speak a speech like this? Jesus, why did he speak? Beforehand, the scribes as they had spoken a lying speech: – – “A devil must be his master”– as they spoke, Jesus, replying, spoke a speech like this.” (Source: Peter K. E. Kingston in Notes on Translation 1973, p. 13ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 3:29:
- Uma: “But whoever rejects the Holy Spirit, there is no forgiveness for them forever. They are guilty of their rejecting [him] forever.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But if he speaks evil-of/insults the Holy Spirit, he will really not be forgiven for that sin of his will remain with him forever.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “he who speaks in rejection against the Holy Spirit, that sin can never be removed from him, and it can never be forgiven forever.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But as-for the one-who-speaks-evil-of the Holy Spirit, his sin can absolutely not be forgiven, because that is his sin forever.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But whoever will insult/belittle the Espiritu Santo, it really will not be forgiven. As for this sin of his, it can never be removed.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 3:30:
- Uma: “Yesus’ words were like that, because some had said that he was ridden [possessed] by an evil-spirit, they didn’t believe that his power was from the Holy Spirit.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The reason that Isa spoke to them like that was, because they said that he was demon possessed.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason Jesus said this was because the teachers had said that the Holy Spirit which inspires Jesus was a demon.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus said that, because they were saying that an evil-spirit had possessed him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus spoke like that because some were saying that that he was possessed by an evil spirit. Well since it was like that, they were regarding/classifying as evil the Espiritu Santo who was indwelling Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 3:31:
- Uma: “From there, Yesus’s mother and relatives arrived [and] stood outside the house. They ordered people to call him to come outside they could talk to him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, so-then Isa’s mother and brothers arrived there. They stood there outside the house and asked/commanded him to be called.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then the mother of Jesus and his youngest brothers arrived. They were outside the house, and they told the people to have Jesus come out.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then his mother and his siblings/cousins (henceforth brothers) arrived at the house where he was and they had-him -called.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then the mother and younger-siblings of Jesus arrived. They were just there outside. They caused Jesus to be told that they were waiting for him outside,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 3:32:
- Uma: “At that time many people were around Yesus, they said to him: ‘Teacher, your (sing.) mother and relatives, they are outside searching for you (sing.).'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, very-many people were sitting surrounding Isa. Then someone told him, he said, ‘Sir, your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There were very many people sitting around Jesus, and the people said to Jesus, ‘Your mother and your brothers are outside, and they want you to go out.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore the many-people who were sitting surrounding him said, ‘Your (sing.) mother and your (sing.) brothers are outside having-you (sing.) -called.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “for inside was full of people. Really many were sitting around Jesus. Without anything further, Jesus was told that his mother and younger-siblings were there outside. They were causing him to come out.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 3:33:
- Uma: “Yesus gazed at the people who were around him and he said: ‘As for my mother and relatives, it is these people here.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa answered, he said, ‘Who is my mother and who are my brothers?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered them, ‘But there are those yet that I will show you who are my mother and my siblings.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus said, ‘Yes granted of-course, but there are also others that I count as my mother and my brothers.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Jesus heard, he said, ‘Yes, in a while.’ And then he spoke saying, ‘Try-to-understand this, who is my mother and who are my siblings?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)