Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:24:

• Noongar: “If a person wants to keep his life, he will lose his life, but a person who loses his life because of me, he will save his life.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “Whoever clings-to his own desires/will, he will not receive good life. But whoever lets-go/frees his own desires/will because of his following Me, even if it kills him, he is the one who will receive good life until forever/eternal life.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “For,’ Isa said, ‘if a person cherishes/loves his life, he has not life forever, but if a person does not love his life and submits yet to die because he perseveres following me, he will certainly have everlasting life.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if there is a person who sets his heart on his own life, he will die just the same. But if there is a person who follows me and it causes his death, God will give him back his life and he will no longer die forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “For the one who esteems/considers-important himself, he will die just the same, but the one who dies on account of his faith in me, there is life that has no limit that God will give him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “For that one who really values his life, it will indeed be lost to him. But that one who holds-fast-to me even though it causes his breath/life to be severed, life which is far from ordinary will really be his.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:25:

• Noongar: “If a person gains everything in the world but loses his life, he does not gain anything, does he? No!” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “What is the purpose/What good is it [if] we gather all the riches of the worlds, but our souls themselves suffer-loss because we do not reach good life in the future.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “For a person, even if he would own all the wealth in the world, it isn’t of any use if he does not have everlasting life and he will yet be punished.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Even if a person can come to own the whole world, it’s of no value to him if he cannot come to own the life which has no end, and he will be punished besides.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “For what do-you-suppose will a person be-able-to-benefit if he comes-to-own the entire world and then his life is lost and he is punished forever?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “For what good does it do a person, even supposing all the wealth in the world becomes his, if his soul/spirit will be lost because is has to go there to hardship/suffering which has no ending?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:26:

• Noongar: “If a person is ashamed of me and my words, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes back, great and shining, shining like the light of the Father and the holy angels.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “‘Whoever is shy/ashamed to confess his following Me and is ashamed of my teaching, I will also be ashamed to confess/admit that he is my follower when I arrive from heaven. At that time, I the Child of Man will descend coming with the holy angels, he will shine with my power and with the power of my Father.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Whoever is ashamed to-say-openly to the people that he is my disciple and that he follows/obeys my teaching, I the Son of Mankind I will also be ashamed to recognise him as my disciple when I come back surrounded with my brightness, and the brightness of my Father God and his holy angels.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Anyone who is ashamed of me and who is ashamed of what I teach, I the older sibling of mankind, I will be ashamed also of him in the future, when I return, and big is the power of my shining, and I am clothed with the powerful shining of my father, God, and with the shining of the angels of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Whoever rejects me who am Child of a Person and my teachings, I will also reject him at my coming when my honor and the honor of my Father and his angels will be shown.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “It’s true, whoever will be ashamed to submit to me and to acknowledge my words as true, I who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human really will be ashamed of him when I return here again. Yes indeed, I will return here again, my praiseworthiness/glory being evident and the praiseworthiness/glory of my Father being evident as being with me, and my companions will be the far from ordinary angelsl.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:28:

• Noongar: “A week after Jesus had spoken these things, Jesus took Peter, John and James with him and went up a mountain to speak with God.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “About a week after that his speaking, Yesus invited Petrus, Yohanes, and Yakobus to climb/ascend going to the top of a mountain, to go to pray.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “When eight days had gone by after Isa had said this, he took Petros and Yahiya and Yakub with him onto a mountain to pray there to God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “About a week later Jesus had said these things, he took Peter, James and John and they went up a mountain to pray to God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “A week went-by after Jesus’ saying that, then he called Pedro and Juan and Santiago and they climbed a mountain to go pray.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Maybe some eight days passed from Jesus having said those things, then Jesus went up a mountain to pray there. He took Pedro, Juan and Santiago with him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:30:

• Noongar: “Suddenly, two men came, and spoke to Jesus — Moses and Elijah.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “Suddenly there were two people talking to him, they were the prophets Musa and Elia.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Then suddenly there were two men talking with Isa. They were eymulla (signifying a deceased person) Musa and eymulla Eliyas.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And all of a sudden there appeared two men who talked with him — they were Moses and Elijah, the long ago prophets of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Right then two men appeared whose appearance was also dazzling talking-with Jesus who were Moses and Elias. What they were talking about was his near-in-time death in Jerusalem to fulfil the plan of God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “When it was like that now, suddenly/unexpectedly there were two men, Moises and Elias,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:31:

• Noongar: “The two came shining like the brightness of God and they spoke to Jesus of the way he would soon complete everything which God wanted when Jesus would be killed in Jerusalem.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
• Uma: “Those two were also shining and beautiful. They spoke, speaking about the death of Yesus that he would fulfill in the town of Yerusalem.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “They appeared there and their whole bodies/appearances were also bright. They talked about it that Isa would soon die there in the town Awrusalam, as God had destined for him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They were clothed also with powerful shining, and the thing they were talking about with Jesus was the fact that he would soon carry out the command of God, because he would be killed in Jerusalem.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Right then two men appeared whose appearance was also dazzling talking-with Jesus who were Moses and Elias. What they were talking about was his near-in-time death in Jerusalem to fulfil the plan of God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “whose bodies were shining too. They were talking with Jesus. What they were talking about was the approaching death of Jesus which he would fulfill at Jerusalem.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)