Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:56:
- Uma: “The people who eat my body and drink my blood, they stay in-harmony [lit., mutual-life] with me, and I with them.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains with me and I remain with him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He who eats my body and drinks my blood never leaves me, and I also never leave him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The one who eats my body and drinks my blood, he is in me continually, and I also, I am in him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, it’s like we (excl.) are now one body.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood is in fellowship with me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Martu Wangka: “If a person eats my body, and drinks my blood, as a result of that, we two will sit together as relatives.” (The idea of sitting together as relatives is good.) (Source: Carl Gross)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:57:
- Uma: “‘My Father sent me, He is the source of life, and I live from / because-of him. So also the people who eat my body, they receive goodness from me.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “My Father God who sent me, he really is the source of life and I live because of him. Likewise also the people who eat me, they live because of me.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “My Father who is the one who sent me, he has life, and because of that I also have life. And just the same with the one who eats me because I will give him life forever.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I live on-account-of my Father who sent me, because he is the source of life. It is the same also with the one who eats me, he lives on-account-of me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The Father is really living who sent me to come here and as for me, I am also living because of him. Like that indeed will be whoever eats me. He is living because of me.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “My Father lives and I live because of him. My Father sent me so that I will cause to live those who eat my flesh.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:58:
- Uma: “This really is the food that descends from heaven, not like manna that was eaten by your ancestors long ago. Even though they ate that manna, they still died anyway. But the people that eat his food, they live forever.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “This hep is the food that comes from heaven,’ said Isa, ‘this food is not the same as the food eaten by your forefathers, for even though they ate that food they died. But this food from heaven whoever eats it lives forever.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The food which I am talking about comes from heaven. It is not like the food manna which our ancestors ate for they died just the same. But whoever eats this food that I am talking about, his soul will never die.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because I am the true food from heaven which is distinct from what your ancestors ate back then. Because those who ate that, they died anyway. But the one by-contrast who eats this food, he will live forever.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I am the one who is the true food which comes from heaven. Today, whoever will eat this food, he has life which is without ending. He will not die like your ancestors did, even though they got to eat of that manna which was food which came from heaven.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Therefore there is a tortilla/food from heaven that gives the new life forever. That which is called the tortilla/food is not like the tortilla/food our ancestors that our ancestors ate who nevertheless died.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:59:
- Uma: “Yesus said all that when he was teaching in the prayer house in Kapernaum.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said this while he was teaching in the prayer-house there in Kapernaum.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “This is what Jesus taught in the church of the Jews in the village of Capernaum.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus taught all these-things in the synagogue (loan sinagoga) in Capernaum.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus said these things when he was teaching in the worship-place at Capernaum.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus taught the word there in the church where the people gathered in Capernaum.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:60:
- Uma: “When they heard those words of Yesus many of his followers said: ‘Ah! That teaching is very hard. Who will be able to follow it!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Many of Isa’s disciples heard this teaching of his and they said, ‘Really this teaching of his goes too far. Nobody can endure to listen-to/obey that.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when his disciples heard this teaching of his, many of them said, ‘This teaching of his is hard to accept. Who in the world can obey this?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When those who had been going-with him heard what he was saying, many of them said, ‘This that he teaches is overly difficult! Probably no one will believe that.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When those being taught by Jesus heard, many of them said, ‘These sayings are heavy ones. Who could consent to them?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When they heard the word Jesus taught, many of the people who were following Jesus said, ‘This word that he speaks is hard to understand. How ever can someone understand what he says?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:61:
- Uma: “But Yesus knew that his followers were complaining. That is why he said to them: ‘So you did not like [lit., make-small-heart] hearing my teaching earlier?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Nobody told Isa but he knew that they grumbled about that his teaching. Therefore he said to them, ‘Are you angry (lit. is your liver bad) about my teaching?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus knew that there were some of his disciples who were disgusted with his teaching. And he said to them, ‘Are you disgusted with what I have said?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “No one said-it to Jesus, but he knew nonetheless that they were grumbling-in-a-mutter-about what aforementioned he had taught, and he said to them, ‘So you are offended!” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus was aware that they couldn’t accept those things he had said. That’s why he said to them, ‘It’s like you tripped-and-fell over what you heard which I said.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Jesus knew that they complained about the words he spoke. He asked, ‘Are you angry about this word?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:62:
- Uma: “If thus, how will it be when you see me, I the Child of Mankind, ascend returning to my previous home?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Na, how will it be when you see me, the Son of Mankind, go back to the place where I was before?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “What will you say if I, the older sibling of mankind, you see me lifted up on high in heaven where I came from originally?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If that is so, what perhaps will be in your mind/thoughts if/when you see me who am Child of a Person rising-up to return to where-I-came-from? Surely it will be worse.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “How will you do when/if you see the One From Heaven Born of Man rise-in-the-air to go home to where he came from?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “What will you think if you see the Man who came from heaven return, going to where he came from?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of John 6:63:
- Ojitlán Chinantec: “People live because their spirit is in them. A person’s flesh is worthless if the spirit is absent from the body. Those words that I told you give eternal life, the way a person’s spirit gives him natural life.”
- Huehuetla Tepehua: “Well, the Holy Spirit, he is the one who gives eternal life. The life of just men can’t give life everlasting up in heaven. The words that I declare unto you are for your heart, and they give life everlasting.”
- Chol: “That which is for our spirits gives us our lives. That which is for our body does not give us that. My words that I told you are for your spirit. They give you your life.” (Source for this and above: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February 1970, p. 1-125.)
- Uma: “It is the Spirit of God who gives life. The power/authority of man is useless. The words which I spoke to you come from the Spirit of God and give life.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I tell you,’ said Isa, ‘it is God’s Spirit hep that causes us (incl.) to live. As for the power/strength of mankind there is no use (in it), it cannot make mankind alive. What I have taught to you causes life because this comes out from the Spirit of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The only one who can give life forever is the Holy Spirit. There is nothing that a body alone can do. The words which I said to you come from the Holy Spirit, and they can give life forver.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The one who gives life, it is God’s Spirit, not the body. The body is of no use there. As for what I have been saying to you, they are from God’s Spirit, so exactly that is what gives life, provided you believe.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “These things that I am teaching, what they all come down to is (lit. there’s no other returning-place than) things concerning the spirit and life which is without ending. It’s true, the things referred to (lit. being caused to be hit) in this teaching of mine, those are from where this life can be gotten. It can’t be gotten from flesh which is eaten.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Only the Holy Spirit gives the new life. That which I told you means that you should believe in me, not that I was saying that you should eat me.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)