Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Luke 13:31)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:31:

  • Noongar: “Now that day, a few Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, ‘You must leave this place and go to another place because Herod wants to kill you.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “At that time also, several Parisi people arrived at Yesus and said to him: ‘Go away from here, because King Herodes wants to kill you (sing.).'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then there were some Pariseo arriving and they said to Isa, ‘Proceed now, for they say that Sultan Herod wants to kill you.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “On that same day there were some Pharisee people who came to Jesus and they said, ‘You keep right on going and don’t you stop in here, in our place, because they say that King Herod wants to kill you.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Right when Jesus had said that, some Pharisees arrived, and they said to Jesus, ‘It would be good if you (sing.) left here, because Herod reportedly wants to have you (sing.) killed.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And then some Pariseo arrived. They said to Jesus, ‘Leave this place for Herodes is going to cause you to be killed.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 13:32)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:32:

  • Noongar: “Jesus said to them, ‘Go and you tell that dog, ‘I am driving evil spirits out of people and healing sick people today and tomorrow and after three days I will finish all my work’.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Yesus said saying to them: ‘Go, say like this to that strategy-maker: today and tomorrow I still work, expelling demons and healing the sick. And on the third day, my work is finished.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Isa said to them, ‘Go, tell Herod that deceiving one there that today and tomorrow I continue my work driving out demons and healing the sick and on the third day my work is finished already.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to them, ‘As for Herod, that person who really knows how to deceive, you tell him that I will not yet leave here because today and tomorrow I will drive away the demons that are afflicting people, and I will cure the sick, and two days from now, then I will finish my work here.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “But Jesus said to them, ‘Go tell that tricky-one that I will be continuing still to cause-spirits -to-leave and heal the sick, but it won’t be long, because I have almost finished my work.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied, saying, ‘Go to that king Herodes, what he is like being a deceiving wildcat. Tell him that I won’t be frightened by him into leaving here in a hurry. I will indeed continue my work of driving out evil spirits and healing the sick, for I still have time even though it’s not long now. And then it really will come that I will have fulfilled everything.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 13:33)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:33:

  • Noongar: “But I must go on my path, today and tomorrow and the next day. They must kill the prophets, but only inside Jerusalem.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “But today, tomorrow and the next day, I definitely must continue towards Yerusalem. Because it is not appropriate that a prophet be killed in another town, it must be in the town of Yerusalem.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But I have to continue on my journey/way today and tomorrow and including the day after tomorrow. Nothing will happen to me here. For most of the prophets are/were killed there in Awrusalam.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But I say to you that it is necessary that I continue on my way slowly, today, tomorrow and the next day, because it’s not possible that I be killed here, because a prophet of God is never killed except inside the town of Jerusalem.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Yes, I will emphatically not die here but rather I will continue until I arrive in Jerusalem, because it’s as if a prophet can’t die if it’s not there.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But it’s true, every day I am continuing on with my journey going to Jerusalem, because it’s not fitting for a prophet that where he will be killed is just anywhere other than there at Jerusalem.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 13:34)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:34:

  • Noongar: “‘Jerusalem! Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and you stone the people whom God sends to speak to you. Always, I have wanted to embrace your people, like a mother bird gathering her chicks beneath her wing, but you will not let me do it.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “‘Ee Yerusalem people! Yerusalem people! You killed (emphatic) the prophets and you threw stones at (emphatic) people sent to you by God. Many times I have spread-out-my-arms to hug you, like a hen sheltering her children under her wings, but you do not want [it].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then Isa was grieved about the doings of the people of Awrusalam and he said, ‘Oy, people of Awrusalam, I am sad about you. You always kill the prophets and throw stones at the ones God sends to you. How often have I wanted to gather you and care for you like figuratively a mother-hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you do not want to.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then Jesus remembered the custom of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and he said, ‘I’m sorrowful because of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, because they kill the prophets of God, and the servants that God has sent there, they kill by stoning. I really wanted to take care of them; I am like a hen who wants to shelter her chicks but they would not be sheltered.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said, ‘Oh (expression of dismay) you people-from-Jerusalem who have stoned and killed the prophets and others whom God has sent! How many times I have wanted to gather you and take-care of you like the way a mother-hen shelters-under-her-wings her children, but you didn’t want it!” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “And then Jesus said, ‘They who are the taga Jerusalem really are to be pitied! They who keep on killing by throwing rocks the prophets whom God sends to them! How many times now I have persevered to take care of the people from there like a hen takes care of her chicks covering-them-with-her-wing, but they don’t want it.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 13:35)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:35:

  • Noongar: “And so your Temple will be emptied. I tell you, you will not again see me before the day comes when you say, ‘God blesses him who comes in the name of the Lord’.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “So, so that you know: the Lord God will leave-behind-for/to-you your worship house. Truly I say to you, you will no longer see me, until the time comes that you say: ‘Praise him who come carrying the name of the Lord God!”” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Look, God has rejected/turned his back on your place. And I tell you that you will really not see me as long as the day has not come when you say, ‘We (incl.) praise the one God has sent.”” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And now how lonely is their dwelling place because God has abandoned them. And I say that they will no longer see me until the time in the future when they say, ‘Praise the one who comes whom the Lord has sent.”” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Therefore you will-be-responsible, because God will abandon you. I tell you that you will not again see me until the future day when you will say, ‘May this coming one whom God has sent be praised/honored.”” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, since they are saying-no-to this grace/mercy of his, God will now just leave that city of theirs to be destroyed, including that Templo. For this which I will say really is true, that after I have left this world, they won’t see me any more until the day has come when they will say, ‘He is praiseworthy who was sent by God.”” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 14:1)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:1:

  • Noongar: “One Sabbath Day, Jesus went eating at the house of a Pharisee. He was well known and people were watching Jesus.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “One time on Sabat Day, Yesus went to eat at the house of a leader of the Parisi people. While he was there, they watched him careful to find his wrong.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “On one day of-no-work Isa went to eat to the house of one of the leaders of the Pariseo. When he was there, the people there observed him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Now on another Sabbath day, Jesus was invited again by one of the rulers of the Pharisees, to eat in his house. And the enemies of Jesus, they were carefully watching him to see if he would break the law.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “On a certain Saturday which was for-resting, Jesus went to go join-in-eating in the house of an important (lit. high) Pharisee, and they carefully-watched him (to see) what he would do,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “On another Day of Rest, Jesus was invited to eat at the house of an important Pariseo. Well, when they were there at the house now, the things Jesus did were-really -being-watched-carefully.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 14:2)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:2:

  • Noongar: “One man came there. His arms and legs were very diseased.. He came to Jesus.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Suddenly a person arrived who was had ngkumowu disease, his feet and hands were swollen.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “There was a sick person there, his arms and legs were swollen.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there was there a man who was sick because his feet and his arms had swelled up, and he came to Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “because there was also there in front of him a man whose body had-become-swollen.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “There was a diseased person who came to Jesus, the effect/bi-product of his disease being that his legs and arms were very swollen (i.e. dropsy).” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 14:3)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:3:

  • Noongar: “So Jesus asked the Law Men and the Pharisees, ‘What does our Law say? We can heal a person on the Sabbath or not?'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Yesus asked the religion teachers and the Parisi people, he said: ‘According to the customs of our religion, may we heal the sick on Sabat Day, or not?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Isa asked the teachers of the religious law and the Pariseo, he said, ‘Is it breaking the law to heal on a day of-no-work or not?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for Jesus, he asked the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees, he said, ‘According to what is taught us by the written Law, will we sin if we cure people on the day of rest?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Jesus said to the teachers of the law and Pharisees who were there, ‘Does our law permit sick-people to be healed on the day-for-resting?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “So Jesus questioned the (pl.) Pariseo and explainers of law. He said, ‘Is it in harmony with the law to cure illness of the Day of Rest or not?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)