Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:1:

• Uma: “While Yesus was walking, he saw a person who had been blind from his birth.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “While Isa was walking, he saw a certain person blind from birth.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And while Jesus was walking around he saw a person who, beginning from his birth, he was already totally blind.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “When Jesus was walking-along, he saw a man who was born blind.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Once when Jesus was journeying, he came across a blind man. This blindness of his was from birth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “There where Jesus was going by, he saw a man who was blind from since he was born.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:2:

• Uma: “His disciples asked him: ‘Teacher, why was he already blind from his birth? Was it perhaps his own sin, or rather the sin of his parents?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “His disciples asked Isa, they said, ‘Sir, why is this person blind from birth? Because of his sin or because of the sin of his parents?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus’ disciples asked him, they said, ‘Say Teacher, who perhaps did wrong? Was it his blind person or was it his mother or his father? Because why is it that from his birth he was already blind?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Jesus’ disciples, they inquired of him, ‘Sir teacher, whose sin was it that was-the-cause-of-blindness of that man? Was it his parents or he himself?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “He was questioned by his disciples, saying, ‘Teacher, which of them had sin so that when this person was born he was blind? Was it he or his parents?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “The learners asked, ‘Teacher, why is it that the blind man was already blind when he was born? Who was it that had committed the sin — this man or was it his mother or father who committed the sin that caused this?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:3:

• Uma: “Yesus said: ‘It was not his own sin, and it also was not the sin of his parents. This happened so that people can see the power of God that happens in him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Isa answered, he said, ‘He is not blind because of his sin or the sin of his parents. But he is blind in order for God to show his power when this person can see.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered, ‘It was not because of his sin, his being blind, and it was also not because of the sin of his mother or father. But rather, the reason he is blind is so that through him might be shown the power of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “‘It wasn’t his sin that made-him -blind. Neither was it the sin of his parents. That happened to him in order that God’s power to remove his blindness would be shown,’ Jesus said in reply.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied saying, ‘He was born blind, not because he or his parents had sin, but on the contrary only so that the supernatural-power of God might become apparent in his body.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Jesus said, ‘This man is not blind because of his own sins or of the sins of his mother or father. Rather he was blind in order that by means of what is done to him it will become known that God had power.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:4:

• Uma: “While it is still light, we must work, working the work of God who sent me. Because the dark/night is about to come, and there will no longer be anyone working.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “While it is yet day we (dual) should do the works of God, God the one who sent me,’ said Isa. ‘When the night has been reached nobody can work anymore.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “While it is still daytime, which is to say, while we are still alive, it is necessary that we do that which God wants us to do, that God who sent me, because when night comes, no one can work.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “‘We must do what the one who sent me gave-to-be-done because it is still daytime, meaning to say, we still have opportunity. Because later it will become-night and we will have no way to do-it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “It is necessary that as for us, we will do the things which God is causing to be done, he who sent me to come here. It’s necessary that we do it while we are still alive for that’s like daytime. Because when already dead, there’s no more opportunity to work, a likeness of it being night-time. Well, who would still be able to work? Isn’t it so that no-one can then?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “While there is time it is necessary that I do the work for him who sent me. When the time has come, then I won’t be able to work.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:5:

• Uma: “While I am still in the world, I am the light that enlightens the hearts of men.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “As long as I am here in the world, I am the one giving light to the thoughts/mind of mankind.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “While I am still on the earth I am the light which illuminates all mankind because I teach the true teaching.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “But here-now I am still in this world, and I am like a light that illuminates people.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “What I am like is a lamp/light. And for the time that I am here in the world, I continue to shine-on/enlighten the mind/thinking of people.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “While I am here in the world, I am going to give understanding to men.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:6:

• Uma: “After speaking like that, he spit on the ground, he mixed it with a little ground/dirt so that it was muddy, he smeared it on the eyes of that blind person,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “When Isa had finished saying this, he spat on the ground and he mixed his spittle with the dirt making mud. Then he smeared the mud on the eyes of the person.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when Jesus had said this, he spit upon the ground and he got mud which was made there by his spit, and he rubbed it on the eyes of the blind person.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Upon Jesus’ saying that, he spit-on the soil and made-it into mud. Then he applied/rubbed it on the eyes of the blind-one” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “When Jesus had said that, he spat on the ground. He made into mud that which he spat, and then he applied it to the eyes of that blind man.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “After saying this, Jesus spit onto the ground. He made mud with the spit. He rubbed it on the eyes of the blind man.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:7:

• Uma: “and he said to him: ‘Go wash your (sing.) face in Siloam pool.’ (The name ‘Siloam’ means ‘Sent.’) He went and washed his face. When he returned, he could see.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “Then he said to the person, ‘Go and wash-your-face in the water Siluwam.’ The meaning of Siluwam is ‘sent’. So-then the blind person went and washed-his-face. When he returned he could see already.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “He said, ‘Go to the pool that is called Siloam and wash your face there.’ (The meaning of the name Siloam is ‘sent’). And the blind man went there and washed his face, and when he returned he was able already to see.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “and said, ‘Go (sing.) wash-your-face in the dammed-up pool at Siloam.’ (The meaning of Siloam is sent.) When the blind-one went and washed-his-face, he was-able-to-see and afterwards went-home.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “When he had applied it, he said, ‘Go, go-and-wash-your-face in that water called Standing-water of Siloe. (That Siloe means sent.) That blind man believed/obeyed. On his return to his home, he could now see.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Then he said to him, ‘Go now, wash your eyes in the water place Siloam.’ Siloam means ‘have been sent.’ The blind man went to wash his eyes. Coming back, his eyes were now opened.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

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

• Uma: “From there, his neighbors and people who usually saw him begging, asked one another, they said: ‘Who is that over there? Isn’t he the blind man who usually sits begging?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “He was seen by his neighbours (lit. companions of houses close by) and the people who had seen him begging. They said, ‘Isn’t this the person who was sitting there asking for money/begging?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “His neighbors and the people who always saw him, a blind beggar, said, ‘It seems as if he is the one whose only work is to sit and beg.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “When his neighbors and the ones who had seen him when he had been begging-for-alms previously saw him, they said, ‘Isn’t this the one that was always sitting there begging-for-alms?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “When his neighbors saw and others who had seen him when he still was begging, they said, ‘Isn’t that that blind one who begs?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “All the neighbors and other people who knew he had been a blind man said, ‘Isn’t this the man who sits at the gate asking for alms?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)