Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:33:

• Uma: “Yesus also/again said to the Parisi people: ‘As for a good tree, its fruit is also good. As for a tree that is not good, its fruit also is not good. Whether a tree is good or not is evident in its fruit.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “‘If for example a tree is good it’s fruit is also good. Likewise if the tree is not good it’s fruit is not good. The tree is known by it’s fruit.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “A tree without any disease bears good fruit. A tree that has a disease bears bad fruit. A tree can be recognized by its fruit.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Then Jesus said, parabling, ‘You should make your opinion of a tree and of its fruit the same. If you count a tree as good, good also should be your opinion of its fruit. And if you count a tree as bad, bad also should be your opinion of its fruit. Because what-distinguishes a tree is its fruit.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Of course you regard as good a tree whose fruit is good, and as bad if its fruit is bad. Because isn’t it so that by the fruit it is recognized as being good or not?” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “The good tree produces good fruit. But the tree that is no good produces fruit which is no good. Therefore concerning a tree, according to the fruit it produces thus it is known whether it is a good tree or not.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:34:

• Uma: “You are very evil! Of course you can’t speak good words, being evil like you are. Because what it is contents of our (incl.) hearts, that also is spoken by our (incl.) lips.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “You are deceiving people. You cannot say good (things) because you are bad/evil in your liver. Whatever is in the liver of man/mankind, that is what comes out of his mouth.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It is just the same with you. There is nothing good you can say because your customs are bad. You are like snakes, because you are harmful. What is in your breath comes out of your mouth.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “You are admittedly too-much, like snakes that have poison! If you are bad, how then will you say good-things? Because what a person says is from what is in his mind/thoughts just the same.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “You children of snakes! How could you say good things when your nature/ways are evil? For it really is true that whatever is in a person’s mind/inner-being, that indeed is always what comes out of his mouth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “You do like snakes which have poison in their mouths. Because you are not able to speak a good word. Now the word which sits on the heart of a person is what comes out of his mouth.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:35:

• Uma: “People who are good, definitely speak words that are good, because they continually think-about good [things/matters]. So also evil people, their words are also evil, because they continually think about evil [things/matters].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “A good person has good customs and says good things because he is/has good in his liver. But a bad person because he is/has bad in his liver therefore his customs and his speech are bad.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “A person whose custom is good, what he says also is good. A person whose custom is bad, what he says is also bad.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The good person, what he brings-out is good, because of-course what is stored in his mind is good. But the bad person, what he brings-out is bad, because of-course what is stored in his mind is bad.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Because as for a person whose nature/ways are good, what comes out of his mouth is always good, because wholly good is what he stores in his mind. However as for the person who stores wholly evil in his mind, wholly evil indeed comes out of his mouth.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “The good person speaks the good word because his heart is good. But the person whose heart is not good has evil words in his heart and these come from his mouth.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:36:

• Uma: “So, so that you know: on the Kiama Day. every person must be responsible for every one of his words. Even if it is a word that has no purpose, he must be responsible.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “I tell you, when the day arrives when God judges mankind the people will have to tell about all they have said which has no use/all useless words.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I tell you that in the future on the day of punishment, God will ask everyone why they said words with no value.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Consider what I say to you. On the day that God judges the people, it will be up-to-them to answer for all they have said that had no purpose.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “But this is really true which I will say to you, that at the day of judging, people will have to answer for every worthless word of theirs.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “I tell you that on the day God judges people, then all the evil words which have come from their mouths will all be punished.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:37:

• Uma: “Because from our (incl.) own words, our (incl.) wrongness or straightness will be decided.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “From your words will it be known what the judgment for you is, if you are forgiven or punished.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because by means of the words that came out of your mouths, it will be seen in the future whether you will be punished or whether you will not.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Because what each one of you says, God will use-it to judge you, and that will be the basis of his saying whether you have sin or not.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Because judging will be according to your (sing.) words/speech, as to whether you will be punished or not.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “If the words you have spoken were good, then you will not be punished. But if you have spoken evil words, then you will be punished.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:38:

• Uma: “After that, several religion teachers and Parisi people said to Yesus: ‘Teacher, we want to see you (sing.) do miracles, so that we know clearly that you (sing.) are really from God. ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “So-then there were some teachers of the religious law and some Pariseo there and they said to Isa, ‘Sir, we would like to see a sign of your power.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then the teachers of the law and the Pharisees said to Jesus, they said, ‘Oh Teacher, show us a sign.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Whereupon some of the teachers of the law and Pharisees said, ‘Sir teacher, please show-us (excl.) an amazing sign that we (excl.) will thereby-know that your (sing.) power comes from God.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “There were some Pariseo and explainers of law there who said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, hopefully if possible, show us a sign to-do-with the sky/heaven.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Some Pharisees with teachers of the law said to Jesus: ‘Listen teacher, we want to see how you will do a miracle so that we can know who you are,’ they said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:39:

• Uma: “Yesus said: ‘No kidding the evil of all of you there! You always circumvent/wander-from God! You ask that I show you miracles. But no miracle will be shown to you. The only thing that will be shown to you will be a sign like what happened to the prophet Yunus long ago.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “But he answered them he said, ‘You people living today you are bad and you are not following God. You are asking for a sign, surprise. But you will be shown no sign except only the sign of Nabi Yunus of old.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus answered, ‘You people today, your customs are very bad. Love for God is no longer in your breaths. Why do you want to see a sign? The only sign that will be shown to you is like the sign which was performed long ago on the prophet Jonah.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “‘Oh you (expression of rebuke/frustration)!’ said Jesus answering. ‘The people now are very-bad, because they have turned-their -backs-on the true God. They insist that I show them an amazing sign, but nothing will-be-shown except (lit. if not) only the sign that is like what happened to Jonas the prophet back-before.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied saying, ‘As for all of you, your nature/ways are evil. You are like a married woman who is habitually-immoral who doesn’t have any concern for her marriage, for like that is what you are doing to God. You say you are asking for a sign, but nothing will be shown to you except that sign which was illustrated by what was experienced by the prophet of long ago who was Jonas.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “When Jesus answered, he said: ‘Concerning the people who live at this time, they have sins and do not know God, but first they must ask for miracles before they believe in me. Yet I will not do any miracle for people to see. What will take the place of a sign for the people is what happened to the prophet Jonah.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

Following are a number of back-translations of Matthew 12:40:

• Uma: “Like the prophet Yunus was three days three nights in the stomach of a large fish, so also I The Child of Mankind will be in the grave three days three nights.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: “For as Nabi Yunus was there in the belly of the big fish three days and three nights, likewise I the Son of Mankind will be in the future in the earth/ground for three days and three nights.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For Jonah long ago went into the belly of the big fish for three days. And in just the same way, I, the Older Sibling of Mankind, I will have to go underneath the earth for three days.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Because Jonas, he stayed in the stomach of a large fish for three days and three nights, and I who am Child of a Person, I will also stay in my burial-place for three days and three nights.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: “For as for this Jonas, three days and three nights he was in the belly of an enormous fish and then he was caused to come out alive. Well like that indeed, I who am the One From Heaven Born of Man/human will be buried for three days in the ground and then made alive again.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Tenango Otomi: “Because Jonah was inside the fish for three days. Like this it will be for the Man who came from heaven, for three days he will be inside the earth.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)