Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 22:17:
- Uma: “‘So from there, I returned here to Yerusalem, and while I was praying in the House of God, I had a vision.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Then I returned here to Awrusalam,’ Paul said. ‘And while I was praying there in the temple,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then I returned here to the town of Jerusalem and while I was praying there in the church which is the House of God, there was something which appeared to me.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘When I returned to Jerusalem, I was in the Temple praying, and there is that which God showed me that was like a dream.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, when I returned here to Jerusalem, once when I was praying inside the Templo, my perception was that the world disappeared. It was like I was dreaming.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 22:18:
- Uma: “I saw the Lord Yesus speaking to me, he said to me: ‘Hurry away from Yerusalem, because they do/will not receive your (sing.) witness, witnessing about me.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa the Lord appeared to me and he spoke to me. He said, ‘Hurry and leave from-here from Awrusalam because the people here do not believe your testimony/witness about me.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “I saw the Lord Jesus, and he said, ‘Quickly leave and go away from Jerusalem because the people here, they will not receive what you preach to them about me.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I saw the Lord saying to me, ‘Hurry! Leave Jerusalem immediately, because the people there, they won’t believe what you (sing.) are saying about me.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I saw the Lord and he said to me, ‘Hurry and leave Jerusalem here, for they won’t receive your testimony concerning me.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 22:19:
- Uma: “‘I answered like this: ‘Lord, they will receive it. Because they really know my deeds before: how I entered into houses of prayer to arrest and beat those who believed in You (sing.), Lord.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘But Sir,’ I said, ‘they really know that I went to all the prayer-houses to seize and inflict-pain on those who trusted in you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And I answered the Lord saying, ‘But they know that I went after those who believed in you in the churches and I seized them and I beat them also.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘But I answered saying, ‘Lord, it is perhaps possible that they will believe, because they indeed know that I am the one who went to the various-synagogues to go arrest those who believed in you (sing.) so that I would imprison and whip them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “I replied, ‘Why like that, Lord, since they will comprehend that my ways/nature have really been renewed? For they are aware of my doings in the past, that I would enter worship-places for whoever I would find who were believers in you, I wouldn’t just beat/hurt them but on the contrary also cause them to be imprisoned.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 22:20:
- Uma: “So also, when your (sing.) witness Stefanus was killed, I was also there rejoicing that he was killed, and I was the one who watched the clothes of those who killed him.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And when the people killed Estepan, your witness, I was also there agreeing to that their deed and I was yet the one who watched over the clothes of the people who killed him.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when they killed Stephen, that person who did not cherish his life here on the earth because of you, I was there because I agreed also to his being killed. I am the one whom the ones who killed him had watched their shirts.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They also know that I was made-happy at their killing of Esteban who confirmed-concerning you (sing.), because I was there guarding the clothes of the ones-who-killed-him,’ I said to the Lord.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “And that killing of Esteban, your testifier, I was indeed there for I was also one of those agreeing with that sentence of theirs which was death. I also was the one who took care of the clothes of those who killed him.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Lalana Chinantec: “‘When the blood of Stephen your witness poured out, I was standing alongside watching. They were doing well, they were doing the right thing, I thought back then. I guarded the clothes of the people who killed Stephen.’ That’s what I told the Lord.” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 22:21:
- Uma: “‘After that, the Lord said again to me: ‘Go anyway, because I will command you (sing.) to go to the towns far away, to people who are not Yahudi people.’ ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But the Lord said to me, ‘Go away from here now, because I am sending you far to the tribes that are not Yahudi.’ ‘” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the Lord said again, ‘Go on and leave because I will send you far away so that you can cause my Word to be understood by the people who are not Jews.’ ‘” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Then he said to me, ‘You (sing.) go anyway, because I will send you far away to the people who are Gentiles.’ ‘” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But he said to me, ‘Go now, for where I am sending you to teach is the lands of people who aren’t Jews.”” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 22:22:
- Uma: “The crowd was always quiet listening to Paulus speak. But when he said earlier that he went to people who were not Yahudi people, they shouted with all their might, they said: ‘Just go on and kill him! He is no longer fit to live!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “The people really listened to Paul up-to/until he said this. But just after he had finished saying this, they started again to shout loudly, they said, ‘Kill him. He is not worthy to live.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when Paul said this, the people no longer listened, they shouted, ‘Kill him because he is fit to be killed!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Upon Pablo’s saying that, the many-people who were listening to him, they began to shout, ‘Let’s kill-him now! His life has no purpose!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “That crowd listened only until those words of his. When they heard him mention the people who weren’t Jews, their anger flared up again. They were shouting out, saying, ‘It’s necessary that a person like him be removed from this world/land! It’s not possible/acceptable to let him live any longer!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 22:23:
- Uma: “As they shouted like that, they tossed their shirts and scattered dust in the air, because they were carried away by the irritation of their anger.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They kept shouting and they were waving their clothes and they threw dust upward because of their anger.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They were shouting and waving their shirts and throwing dirt overhead.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They continued shouting while-simultaneously they were-waving their clothes, and they were-tossing dust up-in-the-air to show their anger.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “They kept on calling out like that. What they did too was, they took off a layer of their clothes and threw them up in the air, and kept on picking up handfuls of dust and throwing it in the air, due to the big-size of their anger.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 22:24:
- Uma: “That is why the head of the soldiers commanded his soldiers to carry Paulus on into the house of the soldiers, so that there he could be beaten and examined there so that they would know why the Yahudi people were so angry, yelling-at him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then the colonel commanded his men to bring Paul into the fort. He also commanded that Paul be beaten so that he would tell why the Yahudi were shouting like that against him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the captain of the Roman soldiers did not understand what they said, and then he commanded the soldiers that they bring Paul into the fort and that they beat him to make him confess what the Jews were so angry with him about, because why were they shouting like that?” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore the commander had-Pablo -enter, and he commanded that they whip-him so he would confess the reason-for the people’s shouting-at him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “When that highest-ranking-officer of soldiers observed, he ordered that Pablo then be taken inside their wall, for he would be interrogated there. He also ordered that Pablo be whipped till he admitted what evil he really had done for which the Jews found fault with him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Lalana Chinantec: “So the boss of the soldiers commanded that they take Paul into the house where the soldiers are. He told the soldiers to beat Paul with a leather rope. ‘We’ll see whether Paul will tell what guilt he has when they whip him,’ said the boss of the soldiers. ‘We’ll see why the people yelled and shouted.'” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
