Mark 11 : 18

Greek uses finite verb with conjunction (Καὶ ἤκουσαν); Vulgate employs ablative absolute construction (Quo audito, 'which having been heard'); Syriac mirrors Greek with ܘܫܡܥܘ. The Latin construction is more compressed and literary, while Greek and Syriac maintain paratactic narrative style.

Greek coordinates with conjunction and repeated article (καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς); Vulgate uses simple conjunction (et scribæ); Syriac employs asyndetic coordination with ܘܣܦܪܐ, omitting the article as Semitic languages typically do not mark definiteness redundantly in coordinated noun phrases.

Greek uses imperfect indicative ἐζήτουν; Vulgate uses imperfect indicative quærebant; Syriac employs periphrastic construction ܘܒܥܝܢ ܗܘܘ (participle + auxiliary 'were seeking'), a characteristic Syriac way of expressing progressive past action.

Vulgate inserts colon after perderent to mark major clause boundary before causal explanation; Greek uses semicolon (modern editorial); Syriac has no equivalent punctuation mark in manuscript tradition.

Greek uses imperfect ἐφοβοῦντο with postpositive γάρ; Vulgate uses imperfect timebant with enim; Syriac employs periphrastic ܕܚܠܝܢ ܗܘܘ ܓܝܪ (participle + auxiliary + particle), again reflecting Syriac preference for analytic verbal constructions over synthetic Greek/Latin forms.

Greek uses πᾶς ὁ ὄχλος ('all the crowd') with repeated γάρ; Vulgate uses universa turba ('the whole crowd') with quoniam introducing causal clause; Syriac uses ܡܛܠ ܕܟܠܗ ܥܡܐ ('because all the people'), substituting ܥܡܐ (people/nation) for ὄχλος (crowd), a common Syriac lexical choice emphasizing collective identity.

Greek uses singular imperfect ἐξεπλήσσετο agreeing with ὄχλος; Vulgate uses singular imperfect admirabatur agreeing with turba; Syriac uses plural participle ܬܡܝܗܝܢ ܗܘܘ ('were amazed'), employing constructio ad sensum to agree with the plural semantic sense of 'people' rather than grammatical singular.

Greek uses prepositional phrase ἐπὶ τῇ διδαχῇ αὐτοῦ with dative article; Vulgate uses super doctrina ejus; Syriac uses simple prepositional phrase ܒܝܘܠܦܢܗ with pronominal suffix, employing ܒ ('in/at') rather than a direct equivalent of ἐπί, reflecting Syriac idiomatic usage for expressing reaction to teaching.