Mark 1 : 17

The Greek begins with paratactic καί followed by the finite verb εἶπεν; the Vulgate splits this into et + dixit, while the Peshitta fuses conjunction and verb into the single inflected form ܘܐܡܪ. The difference is purely morphological, reflecting Syriac prefix-conjugation versus the analytic Latin and Greek constructions.

Greek supplies the nominative article ὁ before Ἰησοῦς (a normal Hellenistic feature for proper names), whereas neither Syriac ܝܫܘܥ nor Latin Jesus carries any article, since both languages lack the definite article in this nominal usage.

The Greek mid-dot (·) and the Vulgate colon (:) mark the introduction of direct speech; the Peshitta as transmitted here supplies no equivalent punctuation token, a difference of editorial convention rather than text.

Greek expresses the idiom with adverb-preposition ὀπίσω plus genitive μου ('after me'), matched analytically by Latin post me; Syriac collapses both into the single prepositional form ܒܬܪܝ ('after-me'), the suffixed pronoun rendering the dependent genitive synthetically.

Greek ὑμᾶς and Latin vos render the second-person plural object as an independent accusative pronoun, whereas the Peshitta encodes it as the verbal suffix -ܟܘܢ within ܘܐܥܒܕܟܘܢ, a synthetic strategy typical of Syriac.

Greek γενέσθαι and Latin fieri preserve the double-construction 'I will make you to become fishers'; the Peshitta omits this complementary infinitive, simplifying to 'I will make you fishers', a smoother rendering that drops the redundant verb of becoming.

Greek ἁλιεῖς ('fishers', plural) and Latin piscatores (plural) match the plural addressees, but the Peshitta uses the singular collective ܨܝܕܐ ('hunter/fisher', root ts-y-d), a noun whose semantic range covers both hunting and fishing; Syriac favours the collective singular here.

Greek ἀνθρώπων and Latin hominum express 'of men' with a simple genitive plural, whereas Syriac employs the periphrastic construct ܕܒܢܝ ܐܢܫܐ ('of the sons of men'), the idiomatic Semitic expression for humankind.