complete verse (Mark 14:46)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:46:

  • Uma: “After that, the many people came and caught/arrested Yesus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then they seized Isa and held him tight/firmly.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then these people seized Jesus and held on to him tightly.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “After-that they arrested Jesus and held him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Well, those people then set on Jesus and arrested him.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Longuda: “They caught Jesus they held-him zub.” (The ideophone [a word that expresses what is perceived by the five senses] zub is used for emphasis — source: Bonnie Newman in Notes on Translation 57/1975, p. 2ff.)

Translation commentary on Mark 14:46

Exegesis:

epebalan (cf. 4.37; with direct object, 11.7) ‘they placed,’ ‘they laid on’: here in the sense of ‘they laid hold of him,’ ‘they grabbed him.’

ekratēsan (cf. v. 44; 1.31) ‘they seized,’ ‘they arrested.’

Translation:

They may be rendered as ‘the men there’ or ‘the people,’ if the literal translation of they is misleading.

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on the Gospel of Mark. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1961. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .