Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Luke 4:21)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 4:21:

  • Noongar: “He said to them, ‘This part of Scripture truly happened this day, now as you hear the words.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “He said to them: ‘Today those words of the Holy Book were fulfilled, when you heard what I read earlier.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then he began to speak to them. He said, ‘This day the verses I have read have been fulfilled/come true while you were listening.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And He said, ‘This prophesy written in the word of God, which I read, it has now been fulfilled in your presence.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “He said to them, ‘That-aforementioned which God caused-to-be-written, it has been fulfilled today right-as you were listening.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And then Jesus spoke, saying to that crowd, ‘Today this has been fulfilled which was said in the writing, this which you heard me read.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 4:22)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 4:22:

  • Noongar: “All the people thought well of him. They were surprised because of his excellent words. They said, ‘He is Joseph’s son, isn’t he?'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “All of them who heard him were surprised, they said: ‘His speech is very good! No kidding his clearness! Yet he is just Yusuf’s child!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “The people in the prayer-house really liked Isa. They wondered because he was an expert in speaking. They spoke together they said, ‘Is he not the son of Yusup?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then those people who were gathered there, they were impressed by His teaching. But they were very much surprised, because He really knew how to interpret. And they said, ‘Isn’t this just that son of Joseph?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “All the people praised/honored him and they were amazed at the pleasing things-that-he-said. But simultaneously they said, ‘This-one is certainly the child of Jose, is it not so?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “He was spoken well of by the crowd and they were amazed at the good/nice things he was saying. However they were saying, ‘Isn’t it so that this is the son of Jose and spouse?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 4:23)

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

  • Noongar: “He said to them, ‘I know you will say this proverb to me, ‘Doctor, heal yourself!’ You will also tell me, ‘Here in your home town, do the same things we hear, things you have done in Capernaum’.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “From there, he said saying to them: ‘There will definitely be some of you who say this figure-of-speech to me: ‘Ee, doktor, heal your (sing.) own body. If you (sing.) are really a prophet, do also here in your (sing.) own town the miracles that we (excl.) heard you (sing.) did in Kapernaum.’ ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Isa said to them, ‘You will certainly say this proverb to me: ‘Doctor heal yourself’, and you will also say, ‘Do also here in your place (the things) that we have heard you did in the place Kapernaum.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said, ‘Surely, some of you will say to me the proverb which says, ‘You healer, you should first heal your own body, which is to say, if you really are a prophet of God show your power here in your own village. Because we have heard about the miracles which you have done in the town of Capernaum, so do them also here in your own town.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Whereupon he said to them, ‘I know indeed that you will tell me this parable/comparison: ‘Doctor, medicine also yourself (sing.).’ What you mean to say is, ‘Do also in this town of yours (sing.) what we (excl.) have heard that you (sing.) have been doing in Capernaum.’ ‘” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “That’s why Jesus spoke saying, ‘Probably you will quote/mention that saying/proverb which says, ‘Mediciner, go ahead, medicine your own body.’ For you will say to me to do here in my own town those things you have heard news about my doing in Capernaum.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 4:24)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 4:24:

  • Noongar: “‘I tell you,’ Jesus said. ‘People do not speak well of a prophet in his own home town.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Yesus then said to them: ‘Indeed I tell you, there is not a prophet who is honored in his own town.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Truly I tell you,’ he said, ‘a prophet is not honored/treated-according-to-custom in his own place.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However,’ said Jesus, ‘very true is the saying that a prophet of God, he will not be listened to by the people in his own village.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “After that he went-on to say, ‘What I tell you is true that there is no prophet whom his townmates acknowledge.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus continued speaking. ‘What I will say to you is true, that there is no prophet who is acknowledged in his own town.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 4:25)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 4:25:

  • Noongar: “Listen to me! Truly, many widows lived in Israel in the days of Elijah. No rain came for three and a half years, and bad days came across the land, days without food.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “These words of mine are very true: what [will] happen at this time, is just like what happened at the time of Elia long ago. At that time, there was a drought for three years six months, with the result that famine came to all the towns. There were many widows in the land of Israel whose lives were pitiful at that time.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “I tell you, in the old days yet, at the time when Eliyas was prophet it did not rain for three years and a half and this whole country had a great famine. It is true that there were many widow women here in the country of Isra’il at the time of that famine,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It is true what I say, that what you are doing today is like the time long ago when Elijah that prophet of God was still alive. God did not allow it to rain here for three years and six months, and all of these towns here were struck by a severe famine. There were many of our companion Jews who were widows, who were hungry at that time.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Think-of what happened in the time of Elias. It absolutely didn’t rain for three and a half years, and the famine in the entire country was extreme. There were many widows here in Israel,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “For think about this, that when in the time of Elias it hadn’t rained for the space of three and a half years, and all the place was suffering a severe famine, there were many widow women at that time in this land of ours(incl.) which is Israel.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 4:26)

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

  • Noongar: “But God did not send Elijah to one person of Israel, but only a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “But the Lord God did not command Elia to help even one of those widows. The one he commanded him to go to was in the town of Sarfat, to help a widow who was a Sidon person, not an Israel person.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “but God did not send Prophet Eliyas to them but he was told to go to a widow who was not of the tribe of Isra’il there in Sarepta, in the place Sidon.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However, because they did not believe in God, there wasn’t even one of them that God sent Elijah to, to help, but rather, surprisingly, God sent him to the town of Zarephath, in the province of Sidon, so that he might help a widow-woman who was not a Jew.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “but God emphatically didn’t send Elias to help even one of them, but rather he sent him to help a widow from-Zarefat in the region of Sidon.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “However it wasn’t to any of them that Elias was sent, but on the contrary to a widow woman who was not their fellow-countryman for she was a taga Sarepta which is in the district of Sidon.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 4:27)

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

  • Noongar: “Many people there were sick, having bad skin disease, but Elijah did not heal one of them, only Naaman the Syrian.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “So also in the time of the prophet Elisa long ago, there were many lepers in the land of Israel. But there was not even one who was healed by the prophet Elisa. Only Naaman, a Siria person.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Likewise also at the time when Elisa was prophet,’ said Isa. ‘There were many people with leprosy among the tribe of Isra’il at that time but none of them was healed even one, the only one that was healed was a person from the tribe of Suriya, called Nayman.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And in the same way there was another thing that happened,’ said Jesus. ‘Long time ago when Elisha was still alive, who was one of the prophets of God, there were many Jews who were lepers. But because they did not believe in God there was no Jew that Elisha healed, but rather it was a non-Jew person, Naaman from Syria,’ said Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Likewise also in the time of the prophet Eliseo. Many also were the people here in Israel who had a fearful skin disease, but there was not even one of them whom he healed, because it was only Naaman from-Syria whom he healed.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, there were also many lepers who were descendants of Israel in the time of the prophet Eliseo. But none of them were healed. Only Naaman who was a taga Siria was healed.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 4:28)

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

  • Noongar: “All the people in the synagogue, they heard Jesus and they became very angry.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Hearing those words of Yesus, all the people in the house of prayer were very angry.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “When they heard this, all of them in that prayer-house were very angry.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the people there in the church, when they heard this which Jesus said, they became very angry.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Extreme was the anger of all the people in the synagogue upon their hearing that.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “The anger was extreme of all those there in the worship-place when they heard that.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)