Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Matthew 8:9)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:9:

  • Uma: “Because I am also just a person who is commanded/ordered, and there are also those whom I command/order. If for example there is my command to a soldier saying to him: ‘Go!’ he definitely goes. If I call-out to a soldier: ‘Come here!’ he definitely comes. If I say to my servant: ‘Do that!’ they definitely do it. So also You (sing.), Father, you (sing.) do not need to go to my house. Just your (sing.) word you (sing.) say here, it will definitely happen/be fulfilled at my house there [out of sight]. ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “I know it, because even I, I am ruled over by those higher than I and I rule over my soldiers. If I say to one, ‘Go,’ then he goes. If I say to another one, ‘Come,’ he comes. And if I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ he does it.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I know this because it is just like there is the one who is in charge of me, and there are also soldiers that I am in charge of. I tell one to go, and he goes. And I call another one to come, and he comes. And I order also my servant when I have something for him to do, and he does it. It is just the same with you because what you say will come to pass.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because I also, there is someone higher who commands me, and I also have soldiers that I command. If I say to one, ‘You (sing.) go,’ he goes, and if I say also to another, ‘You (sing.) come,’ he comes and if I say also to my slave, ‘You (sing.) do this,’ he does it.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “For I am used to verbal orders, because I have a leader/chief who gives orders to me, and there are soldiers to whom I give orders also. If I say to one person, ‘Go,’ he really will go. Well if to another I say ‘Come here,’ he truly comes to me. It’s like that too with my servant, that if I order him, ‘Do this,’ he truly does it.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Because I myself have those who command me. And I also have my soldiers whom I command. When I tell a soldier to go somewhere, he goes there. Or if I should say, ‘Come here,’ then the soldier comes. Or concerning my servants, I tell them what to work at and they do as I say.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 8:10)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:10:

  • Uma: “Yesus was surprised to hear the words of that army commander. They is why he turned to the people who followed him, he said to them: ‘No kidding the faith of this person. Even among the Yahudi people descendants of Israel, I have not met even one person whose faith was big, like this person.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “When Isa heard this he wondered at the words of the captain. So-then he said to the people following him, ‘Truly I tell you, even in the tribe of Isra’il have I not found a person like that captain trusting so much.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When Jesus heard this, he was amazed, and he said to those people who were with him, ‘I have not yet found a person, a descendant of Israel, who is like this. His faith is very strong.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Jesus was surprised upon his hearing that, and he said to the people who were following him, ‘This that I tell you is true indeed, that I have not found anyone who has trust like this, even among us who are from-Israel.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus was amazed when he heard that. He said to those people going around with him, ‘This really is true which I will say to you. I haven’t discovered anyone here among the Judio, the descendants of Israel, whose belief-in/obeying-of me is as great as this.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “When Jesus heard this word spoken by the captain, he was surprised. He said to the people with him: ‘Truly I tell you that not any Jew has appeared in whom can be found such a faith as this man here has.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 8:11)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:11:

  • Uma: “So, so that you know: in the future when God becomes King, many people who are not Yahudi people who will become his people/subjects. They come from the east and from the west, they sit happily together with Abraham, Ishak and Yakub, the ancestors of the Yahudi people long ago.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Listen, in the future many people from various tribes from countries in the east and west will sit and eat with Ibrahim, Isahak and Yakub there in the ruling/kingdom of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t you forget this which I am saying to you, that many people who are not Jews, who will come from far away, from the side of where the sun rises and from the side where the sun sets, and they will eat together with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the future in the kingdom of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Think-about/remember this! There will be many who will be included in God’s ruling who are from the coming-out and going-away of the sun (idioms = east and west), and they will eat-with plural Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “This really is true which I will say to you, that many who are not Judio will come from all-different-places, from the east and the west, who will be companions of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob at the celebration in the kingdom of God in heaven.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “I tell you that many people who are not Jews will come from the direction the sun rises and from where the sun sets in order to sit together with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob to eat there where God rules in heaven.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 8:12)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:12:

  • Uma: “Actually, it should be the Yahudi people who are fitting to become God’s people/subjects in his Kingdom. Yet many of them will be shut on the outside and thrown away into the darkness that is far from God. There they will continually cry and suffer/groan.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But the people of the tribe of Isra’il, they should be the ones to enter the ruling/kingdom of God, they will not enter. They will be put outside in the darkness, driven away from God. They will wail there and gnash their teeth because of their regret.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But there will be also many descendants of Israel for whom God has prepared his kingdom, but they will be thrown into the darkness which is very far from where God lives. And they will yell, gnashing their teeth in great remorse.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “But the Jews who should (but won’t) be included in God’s ruling, they will be thrown-away to the place of darkness, and they will cry-intensely while-simultaneously also clenching-their -teeth in their anger.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But many Judio will be driven away by God, those who are-supposed-to-be his people but they have no belief in me. They will be made to go to the darkness/dark-place which is far from him. There is where there is crying without restraint which includes grinding of teeth.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “But concerning the people who should have entered into God’s hand and didn’t want to, they will be thrown into the deep darkness. There they will cry and gnash their teeth.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 8:13)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:13:

  • Uma: “After that, Yesus said to that army commander: ‘Go home, because what you believe will definitely happen.’ Right at that time, his servant who was sick in his house really did get well.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then Isa said to the captain, ‘Go home now. It is done to you as you believed.’ So-then his servant there in the house was healed immediately.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then Jesus said to the captain, ‘Go home, According to what you believe, that will also be what I will do.’ And immediately the servant of this captain was healed.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said to the captain, ‘You (sing.) go-home, because what you (sing.) believed will happen, it will be fulfilled.’ And the captain’s servant got-well at that exact hour/time.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “When Jesus finished saying that, he said to that captain who had come to him for help, ‘Well, if that’s how it is, I won’t go home with you. Through the big-size of your belief in me, you will receive the help you’ve come to me for.’ The illness of that servant of his truly did get better at that very hour.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Then Jesus said to the captain: ‘Go to your house now. Concerning the matter you believe that I can do, it is done.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 8:14)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:14:

  • Uma: “One time, Yesus went to the house of Petrus. There he saw the mother-in-law of Petrus in her sleeping-place/bed because she had a fever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then Isa went into the house of Petros. He saw the mother-in-law of Petros lying there sick with a fever.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Jesus went to the house of Peter, and there he saw Peter’s mother-in-law who had a fever and could not get up.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “On one-occasion, Jesus went to plural Pedro’s house, and he saw that Pedro’s female parent-in-law was lying-on-her-back, because she had-a-fever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Then Jesus went to Pedro’s house. On his arrival there, Pedro’s mother-in-law was lying down because she was fevering.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Jesus went to the house of Peter. Peter’s mother-in-law was in bed because of having a fever.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 8:15)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:15:

  • Uma: “Yesus held her hand, she immediately got well. She then got up right away and served Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “He took the hand of the woman and she was healed. Then she got up and fed them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus placed his hand just on the arm of this woman, and she was immediately healed. And that woman got up and she cooked food to feed Jesus and company.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Jesus approached her and laid-his-hand-on her hand. Right then her fever was removed, and she got-up to feed him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus touched the hand/arm of that woman and her fever immediately dropped. She got up and made preparations to serve food to Jesus and company.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Jesus took the hand of the sick person to lift her up. At once she was healed of the fever she had. This woman then got up to fix something for the people to eat.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Matthew 8:16)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 8:16:

  • Uma: “That afternoon, many people came to Yesus, carrying their friends or relatives who were sick, or who were possessed [ridden] by demons. Yesus caused-to-go-out those demons with just one of his words, and he healed all the people who were sick.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “When the sun had set the people brought many people possessed by demons to Isa. He drove the demons out just through his command. And he healed all the sick people.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And that afternoon many people came to visit Jesus bringing with them many who were afflicted with demons. And Jesus treated them by only speaking, and they were cured. And he also treated all who were sick and they got well.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When the sun had set (lit. gone-out-of-sight), the inhabitants brought to Jesus many who were possessed by evil-spirits and who were sick. And he caused-the evil-spirits -to-leave with his word only while-simultaneously he also healed all who were sick.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “At sunset, many were brought to Jesus who were possessed by evil spirits. Jesus drove out all those evil spirits. And as for those brought to him who were sick, he healed them all.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “When it was evening, there where Jesus was many people who walked with evil spirits were brought for him to heal them. But Jesus only had to say that the people with evil spirits would be healed and at once they were. All the different kinds of sickness were suffered by the people, but he healed all of them” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)