Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:1:
- Uma: “In two more days it would be Paskah Day and the Feast of Bread that has no Yeast. The leading priests and the religion teachers were searching for a scheme to ambush Yesus so they could kill him quietly.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, it was two days yet before the celebration/feast they called Feast for Remembering and the feast when they ate bread not mixed with leaven (lit. for-rising). The leaders of the priests and the teachers of the religious law, they kept-thinking-about as to how they could seize and kill Isa so that the people wouldn’t know it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Two days after that would be the Feast of Passing By and the Feast of Eating Bread Without Yeast. The chief priests and the teachers of the law are trying to find a way so that they might arrest Jesus without the many people knowing so that they might kill him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It was lacking two days until the arrival of the fiesta of the Jews called Passed-By at which they ate the bread with no yeast. And the leaders of the priests and the teachers of the law, they were searching for how they could arrest Jesus without it becoming-known so that they would have-him -killed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “In just two days it would be when they have their Fiesta of Passed-by and Fiesta of Bread Without Raising-agent. As for the chiefs of the priests and the explainers of law, they continued discussing how they could deceive Jesus so that they could arrest him and have him killed.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:2:
- Uma: “They said: ‘But let’s not do it during the big days, lest the crowds riot / get stirred-up.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Let’s-not-do-it (da’a) at the time of this feast,’ they said, ‘perhaps the people will riot.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They said, ‘Let’s not arrest him during the feast, for the people might riot.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They said, ‘Just-so-long-as we don’t have-it-coincide with the fiesta lest the many-people riot.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But they said, ‘Don’t make it coincide with the fiesta for maybe the crowd of people will get angry/wild.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:3:
- Uma: “When Yesus was in the village of Betania, he went to the house of a person named Simon the leper. While he was there, a woman came carrying a bottle full of fragrant oil that was very expensive, that was made from fragrant tree roots. While Yesus was eating, the woman broke the bottle and poured it on Yesus’s head in order to honor him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, Isa was there in Betani. He was eating there in the house of Simon, the man who had been a leper. So-then while they were eating, a woman arrived bringing fragrant oil. It’s container was made of the stone alabaster. That fragrant oil was called narda, it had nothing mixed with it and was very expensive. So-then the woman broke the container of the fragrant oil and she poured the oil out over Isa’s head.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There was a time then when Jesus was in the town of Bethany in the house of Simon, the leper who was cured. While they were eating, a woman came carrying a bottle made of alabaster stone filled with fragrant perfume which was very expensive for it was pure nard. The woman came near to Jesus, and she broke the lip of the bottle and poured the perfume on the head of Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “While plural Jesus were in Betania, they went to join-in-eating at the house of Simon whose fearful skin disease Jesus had removed. When they were eating, a woman approached Jesus carrying a bottle made of alabastro (Ilo. loan) filled-with pure nardo, a most-expensive perfume. She poured it on Jesus’ head.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “While Jesus and company were still there in Betania, they went to the house of that Simon whose leprosy had been cured. When they were now eating, a woman came who was bringing a far-from-ordinary container full of most-expensive perfume for it was first-class, called nardo. On the arrival of that woman, she opened/took-the-top-off that perfume and poured it on the head of Jesus.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Mamaindé: “… a woman came up and poured out on his head-area the fluid, the good-smelling fluid, the fluid called nardo, in order to anoint him. Her good fluid was very expensive; she poured it on his head-area. Bring the box, the stone box, the alabastor-stone, its box, and breaking its nose, she poured in on his head-area.” (In Mamaindé a stylistic format is used, in which the whole story is told in resume in each of a number of different cycles. Each cycle will focus on different aspects of the story, but will maintain certain fixed points so that the listener knows where to hang the information in the time or causal sequence. All cycles close obligatorily with an identical verbal form. — Source: Peter K. E. Kingston in Notes on Translation 1973, p. 13ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:4:
- Uma: “Several people who were there, they were angry seeing what the woman did. They spoke to each other, they said: ‘What is the use of fragrant oil being wasted like that!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But some people who were there were angry and they spoke, ‘Why was that fragrant oil wasted/spoiled like that?’ they said.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Some of the people who saw this did not like it. They spoke to each other saying, ‘Why was the perfume wasted for no reason?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Whereupon some who were there became-angry and spoke-to-one-another, ‘What-a-waste!” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Some of those there became angry. They were saying, ‘Why is that perfume being wasted?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
complete verse (Mark 14:4)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:5:
- Uma: “Rather it should have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins [lit., moneys], and the money given to the poor.’ That’s why they got angry at the woman.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘It would have been better to have sold it for more than three hundred pesos and the proceeds given to the poor.’ Therefore they really scolded the woman.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “That perfume is very expensive. It’s worth was more than three hundred pieces of money. It would have been good if it had been sold, and the money could have been given to the poor.’ And they told the woman she shouldn’t have done it.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That should have been sold for more than three hundred denario (Ilo. loan) so that it could be given to the poor.’ Then they repeatedly-criticized the woman.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “If it had just been sold, the value of it wouldn’t be less than a year’s wages. Well of course the payment could have been used to help the poor.’ They were really reprimanding that woman.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:6:
- Uma: “Yesus said to them: ‘Let her alone. Why are you making her feel bad [lit., hurting her heart]? What she has done for me is good.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But Isa said to them, ‘Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? It is good what she has done to me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said, ‘Leave her alone. Why are you criticizing her? What she did for me is very good.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Jesus said, ‘Leave-(her)-alone! Why are you hardshipping her? What she has done to me is very-good!” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But Jesus spoke, saying, ‘Why are you bothering this woman? Just leave her alone. What she did to/for me is really good.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:7:
- Uma: “For the poor, they are always with you. If you want to help them, you always have opportunity. But I, I won’t always be with you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For the poor,’ Isa said, ‘will not go-away from you, and whenever you want to, you can help them. But I, I will not remain here with you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You can always help the poor people for you can never get away from them, but as for me, I will soon leave you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because there are always poor-people where you are, and whatever hour you want, you can help them, but as for me, I will not always be with you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For all time the poor are your companions and you can aid them at whatever hour you wish. But as for me, I won’t be your companion for much longer.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:8:
- Uma: “This woman has done what she was able to do. She anointed [poured-on] with fragrant oil to prepare my body ahead of time for being buried, before the time comes.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This woman, she has done what she could (tage’es). She has oiled my body beforehand to prepare me for my burial.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “According to what this woman was able to do, she has done for me. She has perfumed so that my body might be prepared for burial.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “She has done what-she-could. She ahead-of-time poured this perfume on me in order to prepare my body for my burial.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for her, she did what she was able to. For she has already poured perfume on my body like she is already fixing it before my burial.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
