Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:29:
- Uma: “‘Let us go see a person who told/uncovered to me [or: on me] all my actions. Maybe he really is the Redeemer King!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “She said, ‘Come along with me. Have a look, there is a person who has told me all that I have done in the past. Is he not perhaps the Almasi?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘Let’s go there so that you might see the man who prophesied to me everything that I have ever done. Perhaps he is the king God has chosen.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Come and see a man who told me everything I have done, if he is indeed the one they call the Messiah.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Come along! Come with me! There’s a person there who was able to tell everything I’ve done. Maybe that’s the one who is that Cristo who was promised.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “‘Let’s go see a person who told me all I have done. Perhaps that one is the Christ.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:30:
- Uma: “That is why they went outside the town wanting to meet Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then the people went out of the town and went there to see Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they left because they would go to Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “And they went to where Jesus was.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When they heard what that woman was saying, the people from that town went in one big crowd to go to Jesus at the well.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The people left the town to go where Jesus was.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:31:
- Uma: “While that woman was going into the town, Yesus’s disciples said to him: ‘Teacher, let’s eat.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the woman had left for the town, the disciples begged Isa to eat. They said, ‘Sir, eat.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then while the woman was still in the village, Jesus’ disciples spoke to him saying, ‘Datu, eat.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When the woman had gone, Jesus’ disciples repeatedly said to him, ‘Sir teacher, you (sing.) eat now.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When that woman had left to go-and-tell in the town, the disciples kept saying to Jesus, ‘Teacher, have something to eat now.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus’ learners said, ‘Teacher, eat now.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:32:
- Uma: “But Yesus said: ‘I have food that you do not know about.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But Isa answered them, he said, ‘I have food that you don’t know.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered, ‘I have food that you don’t know about.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But he said, ‘It’s enough, because I have eaten something that you don’t know-about.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But his reply was, ‘Oh, I have food which you don’t know about.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said, ‘I have something to eat. That thing is something you don’t know.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:33:
- Uma: “His disciples questioned each other, they said: ‘Who gave him food?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “That’s why his disciples asked among themselves, they said, ‘Has somebody perhaps brought him food?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then they asked each other, they said, ‘Could there be someone who has brought him some food?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That being so, his disciples asked-each-other, ‘Did someone maybe bring-him what he ate?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That’s why his disciples were saying, ‘Maybe someone brought some food here to him.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The learners spoke among themselves, ‘Probably there is someone who fed him.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:34:
- Uma: “That is why Yesus said to them: ‘My food is to follow the will of the Lord God who sent me, and to make-complete the work that he gave me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to them, ‘That is what fills/satisfies me, when I do the wish of God, the one who sent me, and I have to finish the work he gave me to do.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘To fulfill the will of God who sent me and to finish that which he has given me to do is just like my food because it is that which gives me strength,’ said Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said, ‘This is what I eat, my obeying what the one-who-sent-me wants in order that the work he gave-me -to-do will be finished.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When Jesus observed that, he said to them, ‘What I mean by my food is that I obey the will of the one who sent me to come here and fulfill what he is causing me to do.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said, ‘It is like eating to me when I do the will of him who sent me and I will complete the work he gave me to do.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:35:
- Uma: “You usually say this saying [lit., golden word]: Four more months and then we will harvest. But I say to you: Look, over there [at a distance, in sight, diffuse location] is a field whose rice is gleaming so and is all ready to be harvested.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Don’t you have a saying, you say, ‘It is yet four months to the harvest?’ But I tell you,’ said Isa, ‘the harvest has already come. Look at the people who are coming here. If compared to rice, they are ripe already and ready to be harvested. It means they will soon believe in me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘You say that four more months from now and then is the harvest. But if I am the one who speaks, it is already harvest now. Because look at these many people. They are like a plant that is ready for harvesting because this now is the time for them to believe in me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There is a saying of yours which says, ‘There are still four months, then harvest-time will arrive.’ Look (strong command) at the people who are coming. They are the ones I am comparing to ripe rice in the field, because they ought to be harvested.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Isn’t it so that you say there are still four months then it’s harvest? But this is what I say to you, it’s already like it’s harvest. For look at those crowds of people coming towards us. As for them, what they’re like are plants ready for harvest.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “You say that the harvest lacks four months. But I tell you to look at the people coming here. You will not have to wait any longer before the people will believe in me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 4:36:
- Uma: “The people who harvest certainly receive their salary, with the result that the harvesters and the planters will be glad together. The fruit that they harvest, its meaning [is] people who receive good life until forever.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The people who gather them to bring to me get a good reward. And the people they gather are given life forever. Therefore the ones planting and the ones gathering are equally happy/joyful.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he who harvests, which is to say, he who caused them to understand so that they might believe in me, God has a reward for him. And those people whom he harvests, they will be given eternal life. Therefore the one who plants the word of God and the one who harvests the fruit of the word of God, they will all rejoice.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Those who harvest, they will be salaried, and the people whom they harvest, they will gain life that has no end. Therefore those who planted (used of rice seedlings) the word of God, they will rejoice-with the harvesters.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Therefore it would be good if you start now to harvest. It’s really assured that God will give a reward for what you will have done, which is to cause people to believe-in/obey me so that life without ending can be theirs. Really far-from-ordinary is the happiness of that harvester, likewise the field-cultivator.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He who harvests gets a wage. In like manner he who encourages the people so they believe in me will get a wage. And those people who believe in me will have the new life forever. Therefore he who first gives the word and he who encourages the people so they believe in me together will rejoice.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)