Language: Galela

The Greek that is translated with “deny himself” or “deny oneself” is according to Bratcher / Nida “without doubt one of the most difficult expressions in all of Mark to translate adequately.” These are many of the (back-) translations:

• Tetelcingo Nahuatl: “not accept self”
• Amganad Ifugao and South Bolivian Quechua: “forget self”
• North Alaskan Inupiatun: “have no regard for oneself”
• Toraja-Sa’dan: “not bother oneself about oneself”
• Huautla Mazatec: “cover up oneself”
• San Miguel El Grande Mixtec: “not worship oneself”
• Tzeltal: “stop doing what one’s own heart wants”
• Yaka: “let go that which he wants to do oneself”
• Cashibo-Cacataibo: “say, I will not do just what I want to do”
• Tzotzil: “say, I do not serve for anything” (in the sense of having no personal value)
• Sapo: “not do what is passing through one’s mind”
• Central Mazahua: “not take constant thought for oneself”
• Tabasco Chontal: “quit what one wants”
• Highland Totonac: “undo one’s own way of thinking”
• Dan: “put one’s own things down”
• Kekchí: “despise oneself”
• Kituba: “refuse oneself”
• Javanese: “turn one’s back on oneself”
• Southern Bobo Madaré: “disobey oneself” (in the sense of denying one’s own wishes)
• Huastec: “leave oneself at the side”
• Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “leave one’s own way”
• Loma: “take one’s mind out of oneself completely”
• Panao Huánuco Quechua: “say, I do not live for myself”
• Mitla Zapotec: “say No to oneself” (source for this and all above: Bratcher / Nida)
• Copainalá Zoque: “forgetting self”
• Huallaga Huánuco Quechua: “declare, I do not live for myself” (source: Nida 1952, p. 154)
• Galela: “put self down” (source: Howard Shelden in Kroneman 2004, p. 501)
• Mairasi: “shuffle out of one’s vision (=forget) everything which is one’s own” (source: Enggavoter 2004)
• Q’anjob’al: “do not belong to oneself any longer” (source: Newberry and Kittie Cox in The Bible Translator 1950, p. 91ff. )
• Achi: “don’t do only what one wants to do”
• Chipaya: “leave one’s own way of living” (source for this and above: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)