Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:1:
- Uma: “One time, Yesus and his disciples passed through a grain-field on Sabat day, the Yahudi people’s worship day. While they passed that field, his disciples plucked the fruit of wheat and they ate it [special verb used of munching uncooked grain] because they were hungry.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “One Saturday, the day-of-no-work for the Yahudi, Isa and company walked through a field. Because his disciples were hungry they picked-out-the-grains of the fruit of that field and ate-them-uncooked.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Not long after that when it was Saturday, the day when the Lord commanded the Jews long ago that no one should be allowed to work on that day because it was the day of rest, Jesus and those with him were passing through a field. His disciples were hungry, therefore they rubbed the heads of grain in their hands and ate the fruit.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “On one Saturday which was the rest-day of the Jews, plural Jesus were walking-through the rice-fields which were planted with wheat. His disciples were hungry, so they were picking off the grains and were husking-them-with-their-teeth (i.e. to eat).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Before very long again, there was a Day of Rest on which Jesus and company walked through a wheat field. Jesus’ disciples were already hungry. Therefore what they did was pick heads of wheat and crunch-with-teeth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “In those days, on another day on which the people rest, Jesus with his learners were passing through a wheat field. the learners were hungry. Therefore they stripped off wheat and ate it.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:2:
- Uma: “There were Parisi people who saw them. Those Parisi people said to Yesus: ‘Look at your (sing.) disciples! They are breaking our (incl.) religion laws, they are working on the day of worship!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the Pariseo saw that, they said to Isa, ‘Do look. Your disciples do what the law forbids on the day-of-no-work.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The Pharisee people saw this and they said to Jesus, ‘Look at your disciples, because they have broken God’s command to us because they have harvested today on the day of rest.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “However there were Pharisees who saw what they did and they said to Jesus, ‘Look (sing.), your (sing.) disciples are breaking the law of us Jews which forbids harvesting on the day for-resting.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When the Pariseo saw, they said to Jesus, ‘Look at what those disciples of yours are doing! Isn’t it so that it is taboo to harvest on the Day of Rest?'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When the Pharisees saw what Jesus’ disciples did, they said: ‘Look, your learners are working. And it says in the law that on the day of rest it is not permitted to work,’ they said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:3:
- Uma: “Yesus answered: ‘Have you not read what Daud and his friends did long ago because they were hungry?” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to them, ‘Have you not read as to what Sultan Da’ud did in old times when he and his companions were hungry?” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered, ‘It isn’t possible that you haven’t read in the writing long ago about what King David did. He and his soldiers were hungry.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jesus answered saying, ‘You have certainly read what King David and his companions did when they became-hungry.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied saying, ‘Haven’t you read what was done by king David, when he and his companions were hungry?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “When Jesus answered, he said: ‘One time David was hungry along with those who went with him. It seems like you have never read where it is written what he did.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:4:
- Uma: “They entered the house of worship, and they ate the bread that was-given-as-worship-gift to God. According to the customs of our (incl.) religion, only priests may eat that bread. But even so, that deed of Daud’s was not consider-wrong.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “He hep went into the house of God and he took the bread that was laid there given to God and he and his companions ate. And it is forbidden hep by the law to eat that bread except for the priests.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They didn’t sin even though they went into the House of God and they ate the food that was placed there before God. It was against the law their eating this, because the only ones who were able to eat that food were the sacrificers.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He entered the house of God and took the bread that was offered to God which the law prohibits non priests from eating. But he ate it nonetheless and shared it with his companions.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Isn’t it so that he entered their worship-place of God and he and his companions ate the bread which was a thank-offering to God? It was against the law for them to eat that bread, because only the priests are allowed/able to eat that. But since they were-in-dire-straits, they weren’t rebuked.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “David entered the house of God to eat the bread which was put in place for God to look upon. David ate it along with those who were with him. Concerning this bread, the law does not give permission for anyone to eat it except the priests are given permission to eat the bread placed before God.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:5:
- Uma: “Think also what is written in the Law of Musa: priest in the House of God, they do work on the day of worship, but they are not considered-wrong.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And did you also not read in the kitab Tawrat that the priests in the temple (lit. big prayer-house) work on every Saturday even though it is forbidden by the law to work? But they do not sin.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It isn’t possible that you haven’t also read in the writings of Moses that on the day of rest the priests in the House of God do not rest. And in spite of this, they do not sin.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You should consider also what was written in Moses’ law that forbids working on the day for-resting. It says that the priests who are-working in the Temple on the day for-resting are breaking the law but it is nevertheless not sin for them (lit. not their sin).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Can’t you read in the laws which Moises wrote that each Day of Rest, the priests in the Templo indeed break the law about this day because they do a lot of work? Even though it’s like that, what they’re doing doesn’t cause them to be sinning.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Haven’t you read what the law says, that concerning the priests who are in the church, that on the day of rest they are to work, yet it isn’t said that they commit sin?” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:6:
- Uma: “So, even more so I, because I surpass [am more important than] the House of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I tell you, there is someone here with greater authority than the law of the temple.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It’s true what I say to you that someone has arrived here to you who is greater than the House of God. There is also a written saying of God which says, ‘The thing that is big in my breath is not your sacrifice, rather it is your mercy to your companions.’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I say to you moreover that what/the-one-who is here now is more valuable than the Temple.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “This is really true which I will say to you, that there is here with you now one who is greater/more-important than the Templo.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I tell you that here where you are is a person who is greater than the church.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:7:
- Uma: “For I am the Child of Mankind who was sent by God. I have power/authority to say what may/can be done on the day of worship. ‘In the Holy Book, God says like this: ‘I do not request livestock that you offer to me. What I request, [is that] you love others.’ So, if you had known the meaning of those words, you would not have criticized those who are not wrong.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There is a writing in the holy-book, it says, ‘Sacrifices are not valuable/important to me but that is what I want, that you have pity/mercy on your companions.’ If you really understand the meaning of this, you will not fell judgment on a person who has no sin.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said also, ‘If your understanding of this had been correct, you would not have criticized those who had no sin.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There is that which God caused-to-be-written that says, ‘Your pitying your companions is more valuable to me than your sacrificing animals to me.’ If you had understood what this means, you would not have blamed the one(s) with no sin.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For hopefully you wouldn’t have passed judgment on those who had no sin if only you knew the meaning of this utterance of God which says, ‘I want you (pl.) to be merciful/generous. As long as you are not merciful/generous, I don’t want your sacrifices with which you ask for forgiveness.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Yet you do not understand the word written in the Holy Book which says: ‘I want that you have pity, because greater is the value of this than of the sacrifices you make,’ it says. For if you had pity, then you wouldn’t say that people who do nothing wrong have sin.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:8:
- Uma: “For I am the Child of Mankind who was sent by God. I have power/authority to say what may/can be done on the day of worship. ‘In the Holy Book, God says like this: ‘I do not request livestock that you offer to me. What I request, [is that] you love others.’ So, if you had known the meaning of those words, you would not have criticized those who are not wrong.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I, the Son of Man, have authority to say as to what is right/fitting to do on the day-of-no-work.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For I, the Older Sibling of Mankind, I am the one who has authority to say what is the proper thing to do on the Day of Rest.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because I who am Child of a Person am the one who has authority over what can be done on the day for-resting.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because this Day of Rest is under my control who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “The Man who came from heaven has the authority that what he determines, that is what happens on the day of rest.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
