Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Luke 20:34)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:34:

  • Noongar: “Jesus replied, Today, men and women marry,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Yesus said saying to them: ‘People in this world take-wives and take-husbands [i.e., marry].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Isa answered, he said, ‘The people in this world take a wife or a husband.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said, ‘The people here on earth, they get married;” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Jesus said to them, ‘Yes granted, as for people now, they get-married,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied, saying, ‘In this life here-and-now, people marry.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 20:35)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:35:

  • Noongar: “but men and women who are good enough, they will rise from the dead, they will live in the coming days and then they will not marry.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “But the people who are made alive again by the Lord God and who are worthy to receive a portion in the new world, they no longer take-wives and take-husbands.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But the people that God considers worthy to be made alive again from the dead and to live in heaven will not take a wife or husband.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “however, those people whom God regards as worthy of being raised from the dead and living in heaven, they will not get married in the future when they are in heaven.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “but those whom God considers worthy to live again and join him in heaven, they don’t get-married there.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But when those who have died are made alive again, as for those people who have been shown-grace/mercy by God that they can enter his kingdom in heaven, they won’t be marrying any more,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 20:36)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:36:

  • Noongar: “They will be like the angels and cannot die. They will become God’s children because they have risen from the dead.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Because they live like the angels live, they will no longer die. They are children of God, because God made them live again.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “For they no longer die but they are like the angels. They are God’s children already for they are made alive again from death.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason they won’t get married is because they’ll be like the angels with God, and they will never die. They will be children of God because they will be raised already from the dead.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because they are like the angels who don’t die. They are the children of God because he will make-them -alive again.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “because they won’t die any more. For they will then be like the angels. What’s more as for them, they are the children of God, whom he made alive again and gave far from ordinary life.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 20:37)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:37:

  • Noongar: “And truly, Moses showed to us, dead people will rise to life. Our Scriptures tell us of Moses and the burning bush. There, Moses says, ‘God of Abraham, God of Isaac and God of Jacob’. ” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “‘As for the resurrection/living again of the dead, it is the prophet Musa himself who made clear the resurrection/living again. In the story of the flaming bush, Musa spoke-of/said-the-name-of The Lord God like this: ‘God who is worshipped by Abraham, who is worshipped by Ishak, and who is worshipped by Yakub.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Na, about the people who have died that they will live again, this is made clear by Musa in the holy-book. He wrote hep there about the puhung bush which burned. He calls God there ‘God whom Ibrahim, Isahak and Yakub have as God.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And by means of that which Moses wrote long ago, we can know that the dead are raised, because even though at that time Abraham and Isaac and Jacob had been dead a long time, there in the writing of Moses about the bush which was on fire, he says that God is the one that Abraham and Isaac and Jacob worshipped,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘And concerning also the living again of the dead, even Moses, he thoroughly confirmed that the dead live again. Because as for what he wrote concerning the burning tree/bush, it says that God is still the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That’s what it says even though plural Abraham had been-already-dead for-a-long-time.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, about this coming alive again of those who have died, even Moises as-you-know testifies that they really will be made alive again. Because in his account concerning the burning bush which was flaming, he called God the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 20:38)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:38:

  • Noongar: “He is God of living people, not dead people. To God, all people are alive.’ ” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “So, from those words of the prophet Musa, we clearly know that Abraham, Ishak, and Yakub are alive. Because it is not dead people who worship God, it is living (emphatic) people who worship him. Because to God all people live.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “God is a God of the living not God of the dead. That means even Ibrahim and Isahak and Yakub are long dead, they live there in heaven because they still worship God. In the estimation of God all people are living.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “which is to say, they are still worshipping God even though they are already dead, because all of the dead, they are still alive as far as God is concerned.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “What this means to say is that the dead live again, because God, he is not the God of dead people but rather of the living, because all who believe, they are living in his estimation.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Of course he isn’t the God of people who are dead, but rather alive. Therein it’s clear that Abraham and company are alive again even though they had died. It’s true, as for the ones who have died, they are all alive in the estimation of God.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

See also complete verse (Mark 12:27).

complete verse (Luke 20:39)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:39:

  • Noongar: ” Some Law Men said, ‘You replied well, Lord.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “After that, several religion teachers said to Yesus: ‘Your (sing.) answer is very good, Teacher.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Some of the teachers of the religious law said to Isa, ‘Sir, that answer of yours is good.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then some of the other teachers of the Law said, they said, ‘That’s really true what you are saying.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then some of the teachers of the law said, ‘What you (sing.) have answered is admittedly indeed correct.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Some of the explainers of law said, ‘That reply of your was really good, Teacher.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 20:40)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:40:

  • Noongar: “They became afraid to ask Jesus another thing.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “From there, they no longer dared to ask Yesus anything.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “They did not dare to ask him more.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They said this because they could no longer get up the courage to ask Jesus anything.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “And from then on, no one dared to question Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well no one else dared to question Jesus any more.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 20:41)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 20:41:

  • Noongar: “Jesus asked them, ‘The Scriptures say the Messiah, he will be a descendant of David. How can this happen?” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “From there, Yesus also asked, saying to those religion teachers: ‘Why do they say that the Redeemer King is a descendant of King Daud?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then Isa said to them, ‘Why do the people say that the Almasi is a descendant of King Da’ud, they say?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to them, he said, ‘How can it be that the teachers of the Law teach that the king who is expected is just a descendant of King David?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said to them, ‘Why do they say that the Messiah is David’s descendant?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus spoke, saying to them, ‘How can it be said by the explainers of law that the one referred to as Cristo is only the descendant of king David of the past?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)