Language-specific Insights

complete verse (John 9:9)

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

  • Uma: “Some said: ‘It is he!’ But others said: ‘It is not. They just look alike.’ But he himself said: ‘It is I!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Some said, ‘Yes, it is him.’ Others also said, ‘It is not him. He only looks like him.’ But the person answered, he said, ‘I am the person who was blind.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And someone else said, ‘It is him.’ And others said, ‘It is not him, but it looks like him.’ And the cured blind man answered, ‘I really am the blind person.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘That’s the one all-right,’ some said. But others by-contrast, they said, ‘Definitely not, but that-one is his look-alike.’ Whereupon the man said, ‘I am definitely the one.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “‘That’s him all right!’ said others.’Excl., no!’ said others. ‘His face just looks the same.’ But that man said, ‘It’s I all right!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Some said, ‘That’s the one.’ Others said, ‘He looks like him but it isn’t that one.’ But the man who had been blind said, ‘Yes, I am he.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 9:10)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:10:

  • Uma: “So they asked him: ‘What happened with the result that you (sing.) can see?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “‘How do you come to see?’ they said.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the people said, ‘If it is you, then how were your eyes cured?'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Whereupon they inquired of him saying, ‘And now here you (sing.) are able-to-see?'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “‘Well how did you get to be able to see? Why are you no longer blind?’ said those people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “He was asked, ‘How is it that your eyes were opened then?'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 9:11)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:11:

  • Uma: “He said to them: ‘A person named Yesus made mud, he smeared it on my eyes, he said to me: ‘Go wash your face in Siloam pool.’ I went and washed my face, from there I could see!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “He answered, saying, ‘There was a person called Isa, who made mud and smeared it on my eyes. Then he told me to go to the water Siluwam to wash-my-face. Na, I went already there and washed-my-face. After I had simply washed-my-face, immediately I could see.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the cured person said, ‘The person called Jesus spit on the ground, and he rubbed the mud that he made here on my eyes, and he said to go to the pool of Siloam and wash my face. And I went there to the pool that he said, and I washed my face, and beginning with that, I can see.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “He said in reply, ‘That one who is called Jesus, he made mud, afterwards he then applied/rubbed it on my eyes and said, ‘Go to Siloam to go (sing.) wash-your-face.’ I went then and washed-my-face, and after-that my eyes cleared.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “That man replied, ‘That person who is called Jesus, what he did was, he made mud then applied it here to these eyes of mine. After he’d applied it, he said to me, ‘Go, go wash your face there at Siloe.’ I believed/obeyed what he said to me. I went and washed my face. After washing my face, well, it was like this now, that I can now see.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “He who had been blind said, ‘That man named Jesus made mud. He rubbed it on my eyes. Then he said to me, ‘Go to the water place Siloam and wash your eyes.’ I went to wash my eyes and my eyes were opened.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 9:12)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:12:

  • Uma: “They asked him: ‘So where is he?’ He said to them: ‘I don’t know.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “‘Where is that person now,’ they said. He answered, he said, ‘I don’t know.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then the people asked, ‘Who is he?’ And the man said, ‘I do not know.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Whereupon they said, ‘Where is he?’ ‘I have no idea (lit. no-concern indeed),’ he answered.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “‘Well where is he now?’ they asked.’I don’t know where he went,’ said his answer.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “He was asked, ‘Where is this man you are speaking of?’ He said, ‘I don’t know.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 9:13)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:13:

  • Uma: “Yesus mixed his spit with dirt and healed that blind man on the Sabat Day, the worship day of the Yahudi people. So, that blind man who could see was carried to the Parisi people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then the people brought the person who had been blind to the Pariseo.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And they took that cured blind person to the Pharisees.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When that was so, they took that man to the Pharisees.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “They caused that blind person whom Jesus had made well to go with them to the Pariseo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Then the man who had been blind was taken to the Pharisees.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 9:14)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:14:

  • Uma: “Yesus mixed his spit with dirt and healed that blind man on the Sabat Day, the worship day of the Yahudi people. So, that blind man who could see was carried to the Parisi people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “The day when Isa made the mud to heal the blind person was a Saturday, a day of-no-work.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It was the Day of Rest when Jesus made the mud and medicined the eyes of the blind person.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because it was a day for-resting on-which-Jesus -had-made mud to remove his blindness.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “The Day of Rest was when Jesus did like that, which is that he made mud and made well that blind person.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “But the day on which Jesus made the mud to put on the blind man’s eyes was the day of rest.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 9:15)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:15:

  • Uma: “The Parisi people also asked him, they said: ‘What happened with the result that you can see?’ He said to them: ‘He smeared my eyes with mud, and when I washed my face, I could see.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “The person who had been blind was asked also by the Pariseo as to how he came to see. He said to them, ‘Isa placed mud on my eyes. Then I washed-my-face. After I had washed-my-face, immediately I could see.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the Pharisees, they asked the person again the way that his seeing was cured. And he said, ‘Jesus rubbed mud on my eyes and I went and washed my face and now I can see.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then the Pharisees inquired what had happened to him, after-which he could-see. The man said, ‘He applied/rubbed some mud on my eyes, I then went and washed-my-face, and here-now I am able-to-see.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “He was interrogated by the Pariseo as to how he could now see. ‘Well that’s how it was,’ he said, ‘he applied mud to these eyes of mine, and then I went and washed my face. Well it’s like this now, that I can now see.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “The Pharisees also asked how it was that the eyes were opened. He told them, ‘He rubbed the mud on my eyes. I went to wash my eyes. And now my eyes are open.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (John 9:16)

Following are a number of back-translations of John 9:16:

  • Uma: “Several of those Parisi people said: ‘The person who did that, he is not from God, for he does not follow our taboos for the Sabat Day.’ But another group said: ‘But if he is a sinner, where does his power come from to do many miracles like this?’ With the result, there was arguing among them[selves].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Some of the Pariseo said, ‘That person is not from God for by his doing that, he broke the law about the day of-no-work.’ But others said, ‘If a person has sin, he cannot do wonder-causing deeds as he has done there.’ So-then their thinking was different/they were divided in their thinking.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then some of the Pharisees said, they said, ‘This Jesus, he is not the one sent by God because he is always breaking the law to us about the Day of Rest.’ However, some others of the Pharisees said, ‘If he is a transgressing person, he could not do these miracles like this.’ And then at that day they could not agree.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Therefore some of the Pharisees said, ‘God certainly didn’t send that person, because he doesn’t obey the law concerning the day for-resting.’ While others said, ‘Yes granted, but if he (empathy particle) were a sinner, is it indeed-the-case that he would-be-able-to-do amazing signs like those?’ And they contradicted-each-other.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Some of those Pariseo said, ‘That fellow certainly is not coming from God, because he doesn’t take seriously the Day of Rest.’ But others, they were also saying how could a sinner do signs like these which were amazing things? Therein they again couldn’t agree in what they were saying.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Some of the Pharisees said, ‘That man who did this is not a messenger from God because he doesn’t respect the day of rest.’ Others said, ‘But if he has committed sins, he wouldn’t be able to do the signs he is doing.’ Then the people argued among themselves.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)