The Greek that is translated as “birth pangs” or similar in English is translated in the German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999) with Endzeitwehen or “end-time labor pains.”
Mark 1:29-39 in Russian Sign Language
Following is the translation of Mark 1:29-39 into Russian Sign Language with a back-translation underneath:
Source: Russian Bible Society / Российское Библейское Общество
House of Prayer. Jesus came out of there. He had two disciples with him, James and John. They came to the house of Simon and Andrew. Simon’s mother-in-law was there. She had a fever. She was sick and lying down. Jesus went into the house. And heard that his mother-in-law was lying sick. And Jesus went in and saw her lying there. He took her by the hand and began to lift her up. The mother-in-law got up and suddenly found that there was no fever! She was healthy! She was very happy. And she began cheerfully to prepare food and distribute it.
There were many people gathered in the city of Capernaum. They were all waiting for the sun to set. There were many sick people there who were possessed by demons. Many people were brought to Simon’s house. The sick were being put together and they took up all the space around Simon’s house. They waited for Jesus to come out. Jesus came out and treated the sick: He healed one, cured another, cast out a demon from a demon possessed man. The demons inside the possessed wanted to talk about Jesus, but he forbade them! Jesus healed one, another, and a third. He cast out demons from one man and another. And all this was until late at night.
Early in the morning, when the sun had just risen, Jesus quietly went out of Simon’s house and looked for a deserted place. Jesus began to pray earnestly to God. And Simon and the men began to look for Jesus everywhere, and they searched and searched and searched, and finally they found him. And they said:
— There are people there, they are all waiting for you. Let’s go!
Jesus answered them:
— No. I came here, why? I need to tell everyone about God. You follow me.
There are many different villages in Galilee. Jesus came to these villages – one, another, another, another — went into the house of prayer of the Jews, taught there, cast out demons from people who were possessed by demons. So he came to many villages.
Original Russian back-translation (click or tap here):
Дом молитвы. Иисус вышел оттуда. С ним были два ученика Иаков и Иоанн. Они пришли к дому Симона и Андрея. Там была теща Симона. У нее повысилась температура. Она заболела и лежала. Иисус зашел в дом. И услышал, что теща лежит больная. Ииусу зашел и видит, что она лежит. Он взял ее за руку и стал поднимать. Теща поднялась и вдруг обнаружила, что температуры нет! Она здоровая! Она очень обрадовалась. И она начала бодро готовить еду и раздавать ее.
В городе Капернауме собралось много людей. Они все ждали, когда солнце зайдет. Там было очень много больных, одержимых бесами. Многих людей приносили к дому Симона. Больных складывали, они заняли все место вокруг дома Симона. Они ждали, когда Иисус выйдет. Иисус вышел и лечил больных: одного исцелил, другого исцелил, из одержимого бесом изгнал беса. Бесы внутри одержимых хотели говорить об Иисусе, но Он запрещал им! Исцелял Иисус одного, другого, третьего. Бесов изгонял из одного, другого человека. И все это было до глубокой ночи.
Рано утром, когда только солнце взошло, Иисус тихонько вышел из дома Симона и искал пустынное место. Иисус начал усердно молиться Богу. А Симон и его люди стали искать Иисуса повсюду, искали-искали и, наконец, нашли. И сказали:
— Там люди, они все ждут тебя. Пойдем!
Иисус им ответил:
— Нет. Я пришел сюда, зачем? Мне нужно всем рассказать о Боге. Вы идите за мной.
В Галилее есть много разных селений. Иисус приходил в эти селения — в одно, другое, третье — заходил в дом молитвы евреев, учил там, изгонял бесов из людей, одержимых бесами. Так он приходил во многие селения.
Back-translation by Luka Manevich
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Mark 1:35-39 in Mexican Sign Language
Following is the translation of Mark 1:35-39 into Mexican Sign Language with back-translations into Spanish and English underneath:
© La Biblia en LSM / La Palabra de Dios
Retrotraducciones en español (haga clic o pulse aquí)
Jesús dormió en la misma casa y en la mañana cuando estaba aún oscuro Jesús se despertó y se levantó y salió y fue caminando a un lugar solitario y Jesús oraba sólo.
Simón y otras personas acompañandolo vieron que había desaparecido y salieron a buscarlo y cuando descubrieron a Jesús dijeron: “Todas las personas aún te buscan, ¿qué pasa?”
Jesus dijo:”Yo he venido para esto; necesito irme y predicar, vamonos a un pueblo cercano”, y fueron juntos.
En el mismo lugar, en Galilea, iban a diferentes templos donde Jesús predicaba y de personas que tenían demonios adentro Jesús expulsaba los demonios.
Jesus slept in the same house and in the morning when it was still dark Jesus woke up, got up and went out and walked over to a lonely place and Jesus prayed alone.
Simon and some people accompanying him saw that he had disappeared and went out to look for him and when they discovered Jesus they said: “All the people are still searching for you, what’s this?”
Jesus said: “I have come for this; I need to go out and preach, let’s go to a nearby village,” and they went together.
In the same place, in Galilee, they went to different religious places where Jesus preached and threw out demons from people that had demons inside.
Source: La Biblia en LSM / La Palabra de Dios
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inclusive vs. exclusive pronoun (Mark 1:38)
Many languages distinguish between inclusive and exclusive first-person plural pronouns (“we”). (Click or tap here to see more details)
The inclusive “we” specifically includes the addressee (“you and I and possibly others”), while the exclusive “we” specifically excludes the addressee (“he/she/they and I, but not you”). This grammatical distinction is called “clusivity.” While Semitic languages such as Hebrew or most Indo-European languages such as Greek or English do not make that distinction, translators of languages with that distinction have to make a choice every time they encounter “we” or a form thereof (in English: “we,” “our,” or “us”).
For this verse, translators typically select the inclusive form (including the disciples).
Source: Velma Pickett and Florence Cowan in Notes on Translation January 1962, p. 1ff.
complete verse (Mark 1:38)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 1:38:
- Uma: “He said to them: ‘Let us go to the other close towns so I can carry the Word of God there also. Because that is my purpose in coming to the world.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to them, ‘Let us (incl.) go to the other villages nearby so that I can also proclaim there. For that is hep my purpose in coming to the world.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But as for Jesus, he said to them, ‘Let’s go to the neighboring villages so that I might preach there also, for the reason I came here is so that I might preach to people.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But he said, ‘Let’s go nevertheless to the surrounding towns so that I can go preach there also, because that was my purpose in coming here.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But Jesus replied, saying, ‘It’s necessary that we (incl.) also go to the nearby towns, so that I can also teach there. Because this is my purpose here in the world.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Shipibo-Conibo: “Then he told them: Let’s go to the not-far villages; that there too I speak the word. Actually to do that I have come-out.” (Source: James Lauriault in The Bible Translator 1951, p. 32ff. )
- Balinese: “Then He said: ‘Let us go to the other places. to the villages that are near by, in order that I may preach to people there too. For that reason I went out.'” (Source: J.L. Swellengrebel in The Bible Translator 1950, p. 75ff. )
1st person pronoun referring to God (Japanese)
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Like a number of other East Asian languages, Japanese uses a complex system of honorifics, i.e. a system where a number of different levels of politeness are expressed in language via words, word forms or grammatical constructs. These can range from addressing someone or referring to someone with contempt (very informal) to expressing the highest level of reference (as used in addressing or referring to God) or any number of levels in-between.
One way Japanese shows different degree of politeness is through the choice of a first person singular and plural pronoun (“I” and “we” and its various forms) as shown here in the widely-used Japanese Shinkaiyaku (新改訳) Bible of 2017. The most commonly used watashi/watakushi (私) is typically used when the speaker is humble and asking for help. In these verses, where God / Jesus is referring to himself, watashi is also used but instead of the kanji writing system (私) the syllabary hiragana (わたし) is used to distinguish God from others.
(Source: S. E. Doi, see also S. E. Doi in Journal of Translation, 18/2022, p. 37ff. )
See also pronoun for “God”.
Honorary "are" construct denoting God (“say”)
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Like a number of other East Asian languages, Japanese uses a complex system of honorifics, i.e. a system where a number of different levels of politeness are expressed in language via words, word forms or grammatical constructs. These can range from addressing someone or referring to someone with contempt (very informal) to expressing the highest level of reference (as used in addressing or referring to God) or any number of levels in-between.
One way Japanese shows different degree of politeness is through the usage of an honorific construction where the morpheme are (され) is affixed on the verb as shown here in the widely-used Japanese Shinkaiyaku (新改訳) Bible of 2017. This is particularly done with verbs that have God as the agent to show a deep sense of reverence. Here, iw-are-ru (言われる) or “say” is used.
(Source: S. E. Doi, see also S. E. Doi in Journal of Translation, 18/2022, p. 37ff. )
Scriptures Plain & Simple (Mark 1:29-39)
Barclay Newman, a translator on the teams for both the Good News Bible and the Contemporary English Version, translated passages of the New Testament into English and published them in 2014, “in a publication brief enough to be non-threatening, yet long enough to be taken seriously, and interesting enough to appeal to believers and un-believers alike.” The following is the translation of Mark 1:29-39:
At the conclusion of the synagogue service,
Jesus left with James and John
for the home of the brothers Peter and Andrew.
When Jesus arrived, he learned
Peter’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a fever.
As soon as Jesus helped her up by her hand, the fever left,
and she prepared a meal for her guests.
That evening after sunset,
everyone sick or demon-possessed was brought to Jesus,
until the front door was swamped with people.
Jesus healed all kinds of horrible diseases
and forced out many demons —
they recognized him, but he refused to let them speak.
Very early the next morning, Jesus slipped away
to a place where he could be alone.
But Peter and the others kept looking
until at last they found him and said,
“Everyone’s looking for you!”
“Let’s go to the nearby towns,” replied Jesus.
“That’s why I’ve come.”
So they traveled to every synagogue in Galilee,
with Jesus teaching and forcing out demons.
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