Language: South Bolivian Quechua

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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: “to not accept self”
• Amganad Ifugao and South Bolivian Quechua: “to forget self”
• Inupiaq: “to have no regard for oneself”
• Toraja-Sa’dan: “not bother oneself about oneself”
• Huautla Mazatec: “to cover up oneself”
• San Miguel El Grande Mixtec: “to not worship oneself”
• Tzeltal: “to stop doing what one’s own heart wants”
• Western Kanjobal: “to not belong to oneself any longer”
• Yaka: “to let go that which he wants to do himself”
• Cashibo-Cacataibo: “says, I will not do just what I want to do”
• Tzotzil: “to let him say, I do not serve for anything” (in the sense of having no personal value)
• Sapo: “to not do what is passing through his mind”
• Central Mazahua: “to not take constant thought for himself”
• Tabasco Chontal: “to quit what he himself wants”
• Highland Totonac: “to undo one’s own way of thinking”
• Dan: “to put his own things down”
• Kekchí: “to despise himself”
• Kituba: “to refuse himself”
• Javanese: “to turn his back on himself”
• Southern Bobo Madaré: “to disobey himself” (in the sense of denying one’s own wishes)
• Huastec: “to leave himself at the side”
• Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “to leave his own way”
• Loma: “to take his mind out of himself completely”
• Panao Huánuco Quechua: “to say, I do not live for myself”
• Mitla Zapotec: “to say No to oneself” (source for this and all above: Bratcher / Nida)
• Copainalá Zoque: “forgetting self”
• Huallaga Huánuco Quechua: “declaring I do not live for myself” (source: Nida 1952, p. 154)