Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:43:
- Noongar: “A good tree does not bear bad fruit and a bad tree does not bear good fruit.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘There is not a good tree that gives bad fruit. so also there is not a bad tree that gives good fruit.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said also, ‘A good tree does not bear fruit that is not good and a tree which is not good does not have good fruit.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus said again, ‘The tree which has no disease, it’s fruit is good, and it will not give bad fruit. The tree that has a disease, its fruit is bad, and it does not bear good fruit.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus also said, ‘The good tree, it doesn’t bear-bad -fruit, and neither does the bad tree bear-good -fruit.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘As for a good tree, of course it doesn’t bear bad fruit. And also a tree which is sick doesn’t bear good fruit.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:44:
- Noongar: “People know all trees because of the fruit they bear. You do not pick quondong from thorn bushes. You do not pick kamak berries from mallee trees.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “The goodness of each kind of tree is known by its fruit. Figs are not plucked from thorny vines. Grapes are not plucked from nettles.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “A tree is known by it’s fruit. We (incl.) do not get guavas from a thorn bush (puhung) or lansones from the weed-touch-me-not (sampinit).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Every tree can be identified by means of its fruit. For the banag tree, it does not bear grapes, and the seg`a tree, it does not bear figs.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That which distinguishes every tree is its fruit, because obviously one does not pick guavas from a bamboo or pick grapes from rattan (a thorny vine).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Of course, each tree can be recognized by its fruit. For a sinipit-vine doesn’t bear igos fruit, nor do thorny weeds bear ubas fruit.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
See also figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:45:
- Noongar: “A good man has good things in his heart so he brings out good things. A bad man has bad things in his heart and so he brings out bad things. The mouth says the things which come out of the heart.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “So also man. Good people, definitely speak good words, since their hearts are full of good [things]. Bad/evil people, their speech/words are also bad, because their hearts are full of bad/evil [things]. Because whatever the contents of our hearts, that also is what is spoken at our lives.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Mankind is figuratively also like a tree. A good person has good conduct and his words are good because he is good in his liver. But a bad person, because there is bad in his liver therefore his conduct and his words are not good. Whatever is in the liver of mankind that is what comes out from his mouth.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It’s the same way also with people,’ said Jesus, ‘because if a person’s custom is good, then also are good the things which are hidden in his breath. And good also are the things which he says. But if he is a person with bad custom, then bad also are the things that are hidden in his breath and bad also are the things which he says, because what is hidden in the breath of a person, that also is what he will say.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It is like us people as well. The good person, good is what he causes-to-come-forth (i.e. words), because of course what has been stored in his mind is good. But the bad person, bad also is what he causes-to-come-forth, because of course what has been stored in his mind is also bad. Because what a person says, it indeed also has-come from what is in his mind.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well it’s like that too with people. Because as for a person with a good nature/ways, always good is what comes out of his mouth, because only good is what he stores in his mind/inner-being. However a person with wholly evil stored in his mind/inner-being will have wholly evil coming out of his mouth. For what is stored in the mind/inner-being of a person can be known by his words.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:46:
- Noongar: “Why do you call me ‘Lord! Lord!’ but you don’t do what I tell you?” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord!’ when you do not follow my commands!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Why do you say that I am your Lord but you do not do what I command you?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus spoke again, saying, ‘Why do you say that I am your boss but you do not obey my advice to you?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus went-on to say, ‘Why is Lord what you use-to-call/address me while at-the-same-time you don’t obey what I say?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And then Jesus questioned, saying, ‘Well, why do you (pl.) call me Lord/Chief since you aren’t doing what I say to you?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:47:
- Noongar: “If a person comes to me and he listens to my words and does what I say, I will tell you what he is like.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “People who come to me hearing and following my teaching, they are like the people in this parable:” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Whoever comes to me and listens to my words and obeys them I will explain to you as to what he is like.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Any disciple of mine who hears my advice to him and acts on it, I tell you that” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The one who comes to me who listens and believes/obeys what I say, I will parable to you what he is like.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Now/today I will make known to you what the person is like who comes to me and listens to what I am saying, and then he obeys it.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:48:
- Noongar: “He is like a man building his house; he dug a deep hole and he stood his house on rock. The river overflowed and struck that house but the water could not shake the house, because he built the house well. (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “A person built a house, he dug the ground he made deep and he planted a strong foundation-stone. Big rain and a flood came and struck that house, but it did not shake because its foundation-stone was strong.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He is like a person building a house. He makes a deep hole until he reaches a rock. Then he erects the posts of his house on the rock. When the house is finished the river floods and the house is reached by the strong flood but his house does not move, for the place-for-standing it/it’s foundation is good.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “he is like a person who builds a strong house on top of a great stone. He dug the holes deeply in order to set the posts, and when that house was finished, a typhoon came and the water became deep, and that house was struck by strong-flowing water, but it did not fall because it was built strongly.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He is like a person who built his house on a rock. He properly chipped-out-the-rock-for the foundation, then he erected his house. The water in the river then increased and it struck-against that house, but (expression of reassurance) it was not shaken, because its construction was firm/strong.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “He is like a person who built a house, putting its posts down really deep in ground which had rocks mixed in it. When bad weather came, when there was a big flood and his house was engulfed in it, nothing bad happened to it, for he had truly made it really sturdy.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 6:49:
- Noongar: “But a person who hears my words but doesn’t do what I say, he is like a man building his house, but the house did not stand on rock. The river overflowed and struck that house and the house fell suddenly. The house fell very badly!” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “But the people who hear my words and do not follow, they are like a person who built a house on just land/the ground without a foundation-stone. A flood came and struck that house, it fell down, and its destruction was great.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Now if a person listens to my words but does not obey them he is like a person building a house, but does not make a hole for the posts and does not stand them on rock. When the strong flood comes immediately the house falls and breaks to pieces.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now the person who just listens to my advice but he does not act upon it, he is like the person who built a house on the sand, and when that house was finished, it also was hit by a typhoon, and the house was struck by the force of strong water, and the house fell and was completely broken up.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But the person who has been listening to what I say and he doesn’t believe/obey it, he is compared to a person who built his house on the soil and he didn’t carve out from the rock a place-upon-which-to-set its foundation. So when the water struck-against that house of his, it fell-down and was totally destroyed.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But as for that person who, although he hears my teaching, doesn’t obey it, he is like a person who only did a shoddy job when building his house, for he didn’t make it sturdy by putting the posts down deep in the ground. Well when the flood came, it also was engulfed. What else but for the reason that it wasn’t sturdy, it fell at once and was totally broken up.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:1:
- Noongar: “When Jesus finished saying these things to the people, he went to Capernaum.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “When Yesus was finished teaching all the people, he went to Kapernaum town.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When Isa had finished saying all this to the people, he went to the town of Kapernaum.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When Jesus had finished teaching the people, he went to the town of Capernaum.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When Jesus had finished teaching all these-things to the many-people, he went to Capernaum.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Jesus had ended all of that which he was teaching the people, he continued on to Capernaum.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)