Mark 1 : 17

Greek employs the definite article ὁ before Ἰησοῦς, a standard Greek construction absent in Syriac (which lacks articles) and Latin (where the proper name stands without article). The Vulgate's colon after Jesus represents editorial punctuation not present in the Greek manuscript tradition.

Greek uses a periphrastic future construction ποιήσω ὑμᾶς γενέσθαι ('I will make you to become'), employing both ποιέω and the infinitive γενέσθαι. Latin preserves this structure with faciam vos fieri. Syriac compresses the expression into the single causative verb ܘܐܥܒܕܟܘܢ (wa-ʿebedkōn, 'and-I-will-make-you'), incorporating the object pronoun as a suffix and omitting the separate infinitive, yielding a more compact but semantically equivalent construction.

Greek and Latin place the noun before the genitive (ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων / piscatores hominum, 'fishers of-men'). Syriac reverses the order with ܨܝܕܐ ܕܒܢܝ ܐܢܫܐ (ṣaydē d-bnay nāšā, 'fishers of-sons-of man'), using the construct chain typical of Semitic languages and employing the idiomatic ܒܢܝ ܐܢܫܐ ('sons of man') for 'men/humanity' where Greek and Latin use the simple plural.