complete verse (Luke 7:28)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 7:28:

  • Noongar: “Jesus said, ‘I tell you, John is a greater man than all people, people who have lived before and people who live today. But the person who is smallest in the Kingdom of Heaven, he is greater than John.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “Yesus also said: ‘Listen well: from all the people who have been born in this world, there is not one whose life is greater than Yohanes. But from now, the people who become God’s people in his Kingdom are very fortunate/blessed. Even those whose lives are very small, their blessedness/fortune is greater than Yohanes’s.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “I tell you,’ said Isa, ‘there is no person born in this world who is greater than this Yahiya. But in the ruling of God even a person whose status is very low is yet greater than Yahiya.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘Remember that John the Baptist, there is no person of any time who is greater than he. However, when God rules in the future, any person at that time who subjects himself to God, even though his rank is very small, he will be greater than John is now.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Then Jesus went-on to say, ‘This that I tell you is true that no person has been born on this earth who is higher than Juan, but even so, the lowest one in God’s ruling is higher yet than he.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “This which I will say to you is really true, that of all who have been born (lit. become people) here in the world, none can exceed in greatness/importance this Juan who was the first to baptize. But now/today, even an insignificant/low-class person, as long as he causes himself to become a subject of the kingdom of God, he can be greater than Juan.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Gurung: “John is the greatest of all people. Even though he is, whoever, after seeing my deeds and hearing my words, obeys God according to what I say, even though that person be small, he will receive greater blessing than John.” (Source: Warren Glover in The Bible Translator 1978, p. 231ff.)
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