'Themselves' in the Bible

but the Pharisees and the legal experts rejected the purpose of God for themselves, [because they] had not been baptized by him.)

And those who were reclining at the table with [him] began to say among themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"

Now he told a parable to those who had been invited [when he] noticed how they were choosing for themselves the places of honor, saying to them,

And they all {alike} began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, 'I have purchased a field, and {I must} go out to look at it. I ask you, consider me excused.'

And he said to them, "You are the ones who justify themselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts! For [what is] [considered] exalted among men [is] an abomination in the sight of God.

And he also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and looked down on {everyone else}: