Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 4:23:

• Uma: “Whoever of you has ears, listen well!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Amey-amey (strong injunction) listen if something is said to you.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You must understand this which you have heard.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “You who are listening, think-about what you heard.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Therefore since what ears are for is to listen with, it’s necessary that you (pl.) listen well to this which is being said.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 4:26:

• Uma: “Yesus said: ‘When God becomes King on earth, that happening is like this parable: A person plants his garden/field.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Isa said yet, ‘The ruling of God over his people is like this. (It is) figuratively like seed that a person broadcasted on his land.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus continued speaking, he said, ‘The growing bigger of the rule of God is like a person who planted seed in his field.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “There was also another parable that Jesus told. He said, ‘God’s ruling can-be-compared-to a man who went to plant in his unflooded-rice field.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Something else which Jesus said was, ‘The kingdom of God is like this. There was a person who planted his field.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

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

• Uma: “At night he sleeps, during the day he gets up. During this time his planted-things grow bigger and bigger. But how his planted-things grow and become big, he does not know.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “After he had broadcasted it, he did his other work. He slept at night and got up when it was daytime. So-then the seed sprouted and grew by itself. The person did/does not understand how it grows.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He does not know the means by which his plants sprout; he just leaves them alone. He sleeps at night and he works in the daytime, and everyday his plants sprout and grow larger.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “He sleeps at night and gets-up in the morning while-simultaneously what he planted sprouts and grows. But the way it grows, he doesn’t know.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “After he’d planted, it’s like he ignored it, for he just continued his daily work. But what he’d planted sprouted and grew, though he doesn’t know how.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 4:28:

• Uma: “From the land itself its fruit appears. First the leaves and stalk appear, after that the-head-forms, until it fruits [lit., has-contents].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “For the seed sprouts by itself and bears fruit. First the shoots (tuglus) then the head (forms) (betteng) and then the ear-comes-out (bukbus).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For the earth is the means by which his plants sprout. The plant sprouts, then the leaf comes out, then the fruit comes out, and then it ripens.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Because the plants just grow anyway. They sprout, then the grain-heads-develop and then the kernels-come-out (stages in growth of rice).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “For as for soil/ground, that’s what causes whatever plant to sprout and bear fruit. Of course it will grow and then bear fruit with long heads full of grain.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 4:29:

• Uma: “When the rice is ripe, the owner goes carrying a sickle to cut it with, since harvest time has come.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “When it’s fruit is ripe the owner of the field commands it immediately to be harvested for the harvest has come.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when it ripens, the owner of the land harvests it because it is harvest time.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “When it is ripe, then he goes to harvest-it.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Well, when it’s ripe, of course it will be harvested for then it’s harvest time.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 4:30:

• Uma: “Yesus said: ‘If/when God becomes King on earth, how does it happen? It is like this parable:” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Then Isa said, ‘To what shall we (incl.) compare the ruling of God over his people? And if we (incl.) speak-in-a-parable what shall the parable of it be?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus spoke again, ‘What is a good thing for us to liken the ruling of God to? What is a good parable for us to use?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said, ‘To what perhaps shall I compare God’s ruling? What is it like?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “‘Well to what also shall we (incl.) liken the kingdom of God?’ said Jesus next. ‘What shall we (incl.) next use as an illustration so that it can be pictured well?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)