Reflexive pronoun emautou (myself, my own) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

8: 9For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under myself (emautou); and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and the slave does it."

Luke

7: 7therefore I did not presume myself (emautou) to come to you. But only speak the word, and let my servant be healed.
7: 8For I also am a man set under authority, with soldiers under myself (emautou); and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and the slave does it."

John

5: 30"I can do nothing on my own (emautou). As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
5: 31"If I testify about myself (emautou), my testimony is not true.
7: 17Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own (emautou).
7: 28Then Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own (emautou). But the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him.
8: 14Jesus answered, "Even if I testify on my own (emautou) behalf, my testimony is valid because I know where I have come from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
8: 18I testify on my own (emautou) behalf, and the Father who sent me testifies on my behalf."
8: 28So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own (emautou), but I speak these things as the Father instructed me.
8: 42Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now I am here. I did not come on my own (emautou), but he sent me.
8: 54Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself (emautou), my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, he of whom you say, 'He is our God,'
10: 18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own (emautou) accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father."
12: 32And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself (emautou)."
12: 49for I have not spoken on my own (emautou), but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak.
14: 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself (emautou), so that where I am, there you may be also.
14: 10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own (emautou); but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
14: 21They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself (emautou) to them."
17: 19And for their sakes I sanctify myself (emautou), so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

Acts

20: 24But I do not count my life of any value to myself (emautou), if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God's grace.
24: 10When the governor motioned to him to speak, Paul replied: "I cheerfully make a defense about myself (emautou), knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation.
26: 2"I consider myself (emautou) fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am to make my defense today against all the accusations of the Jews,
26: 9"Indeed, I myself (emautou) was convinced that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.