Language-specific Insights

complete verse (John 6:48)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:48:

  • Uma: “I am the food that gives life.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “I am the food that causes life,’ said Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I am the food which gives life forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because I am the food that gives life.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “I am the food which gives life.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “I am the tortilla/food which gives the new life.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 6:49)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:49:

  • Uma: “‘The food called manna eaten by your ancestors long ago in the wilderness did not give life, because they all died.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “‘Your forefathers were able to eat manna there in the lonely place, but they certainly died.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The food called manna, this was eaten by your ancestors long ago, but they died just the same.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Your ancestors, they ate manna in their walking through the place with no inhabitants, and there-now they died anyway.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Your ancestors got to eat manna when they were there in the wilderness, but they died anyway.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “There in the wilds our ancestors ate a tortilla/food which came from heaven. But they didn’t live forever, rather they died later.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
  • Kaiwá: “Even though your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, they still eventually died.” (This construction assures that they didn’t die because of the manna — source: John Taylor in Notes on Translation 63/1977), p. 14ff.

complete verse (John 6:50)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:50:

  • Uma: “But the food that descends from heaven is not like that. Whoever eats that food, they do not die.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But this food from heaven, if a person is able to eat it, he will not die.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “However this food which comes from heaven, if anyone eats this, he will have life forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The food by-contrast that I am speaking-of to you today, that is the true/proper food that came-from heaven, and the one who eats this food, he will-never-die.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But there is again food which comes from heaven and whoever will eat this food, he will not die.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “But that tortilla/food I speak of came from heaven and he who eats the tortilla/food will not die.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 6:51)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:51:

  • Lalana Chinantec: “I am the food which is alive which came down from heaven. The heart of the person who eats this food will be alive forever. There is food which I will give, because I want the hearts of the people of the world to be alive. I’m talking about my flesh and blood.’ That’s what Jesus said.” (Source: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
  • Uma: “I am the food that descended from heaven, the living food. People who eat this food live forever. This living food, it means my body that I give so that men receive life.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “I am the food from heaven. I am already the food that causes life. If anyone eats this food, he will live forever. And the food that I cause him to eat is my flesh/muscles. I submit my body/myself so that all mankind will live forever,’ said Isa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I am the food that comes from heaven and give life, and if there is anyone who eats me, his soul will not die. The food which I give is my body. I give this so that all mankind might come to own life forever,’ said Jesus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Exactly I am that living food that came-from heaven, and whoever eats this food, he will live-and-live forever. This food, it is my body that I will give so that the many-people in this world will be able to live.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “I am this food which gives life, which descended coming from heaven. Whoever will eat this has life which is without ending. Now this food which I will give, which will give life which is without ending to all people, (it is) my own body.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “I am the tortilla/food which came from heaven even though I am a person. He who eats this tortilla/food will live forever. The tortilla/food I give is my body. I give my body so that the people who live here on earth will have the new life.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 6:52)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:52:

  • Uma: “When the Yahudi people heard those words of Yesus, they argued with one another, they said: ‘How can he give his body to us for us to eat?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then the Yahudi argued about what Isa had said. They said, ‘How can this person give us (dual) his flesh to eat?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the Jewish people began to argue, they said, ‘How can this person give us his body so that we can eat it?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Whereupon the Jews argued-together saying, ‘How perhaps can that person give his body so that we will eat-it?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Because of that which Jesus had said the Judio were again arguing among themselves, for they were saying, ‘How can this person give his body for us to eat?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “The Jews argued among themselves and said, ‘Can he give us his body for us to eat?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 6:53)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:53:

  • Uma: “That is why he said to them: ‘These my words are very true: If you do not eat my body, I the Child of Mankind, and if you do not drink my blood, you will not receive spiritual life [lit., life of your souls].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Isa said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Mankind, that means my flesh and if you do not drink my blood, you have no true life.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said, ‘It is true what I say to you, as for me, the older sibling of mankind, if you do not eat my body and if you do not drink my blood, you do not have life forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Jesus then said, ‘True indeed is this that I say to you that if you don’t eat the body of me who am Child of a Person and you don’t drink my blood, you will not have in you the life that has no end.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “That’s why Jesus said to them, ‘This is the truth which I will say to you. Except you get to eat the flesh of the One From Heaven Born of Man and get to drink his blood, true life really cannot be yours.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said to the people, ‘I tell you the truth that if you don’t eat the flesh of the man who came from heaven and if you don’t drink his blood, then you don’t have the new life. Truly, It is necessary that you eat the flesh of the Man who came from heaven and you drink his blood in order to have the new life.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 6:54)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:54:

  • Uma: “The people who eat my body and drink my blood, they receive good life forever, and I raise them on Kiama Day.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “The ones who eat my flesh and drink my blood live forever. And I will make them alive in the last day.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because he who eats my body and drinks my blood has already come to own life forever, and I will raise him up in the future on that last day;” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because those who eat my body and drink my blood, it is they to whom God gives life that is forever, and they also are the ones I will make-alive at the last day.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “That one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, he has life which is without ending and I really will raise him to life again at the end of the world.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has the new life forever. And I will cause him to be resurrected at the last day.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 6:55)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:55:

  • Aguaruna: “My body is like true food and my blood is like true drink.”
  • Xicotepec De Juárez Totonac: “My body is the good food and my blood is the good drink.”
  • Lalana Chinantec: “For truly my flesh and blood give strength.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
  • Uma: “Because my body is real food, and my blood is real drink.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “For my flesh is the real food and my blood is the real drink.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “for my body and my blood become food and drink forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because my body and my blood, those are the true food and drink.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Because as for my flesh, it truly is food, and that blood of mine, it truly is drink.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Because my flesh truly takes the place of food for the people. And my blood takes away the thirst of the people.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)