Mark 12 : 35

Greek ἀποκριθεὶς is an aorist passive participle ('having answered'), matched by the Latin present participle respondens; the Peshitta renders the idea as a finite verb ܘܥܢܐ ('and he answered'), fused with the conjunction, breaking the Greek participial chain into coordinate finite clauses, a typical Syriac narrative style.

Greek supplies the article ὁ before Ἰησοῦς; both the Peshitta ܝܫܘܥ and the Latin Jesus omit any article, as neither language employs the definite article with proper names in this construction.

Greek ἔλεγεν is a single imperfect verb ('was saying'), rendered by the Latin imperfect dicebat; the Peshitta uses a coordinated finite verb ܘܐܡܪ ('and said'), reflecting its preference for parataxis over the Greek participle-plus-verb construction.

Greek uses the prepositional phrase ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ with article and a following punctuation marker; Latin mirrors this with in templo plus colon; the Peshitta compresses preposition, article, and noun into the single prefixed form ܒܗܝܟܠܐ, characteristic of Syriac morphological synthesis.

Greek marks the subject with the plural article οἱ γραμματεῖς; both the Peshitta ܣܦܪܐ and the Latin scribæ express the plural through nominal morphology alone, without a separate article.

Greek introduces the reported clause with the conjunction ὅτι ('that') governing a finite predicate; Latin recasts the same content as an accusative-and-infinitive (Christum ... esse), so the explicit conjunction has no separate equivalent in either Latin or the Peshitta, which uses a nominal sentence.

Greek ὁ χριστός carries the definite article and stands in the nominative as subject; Latin Christum is accusative within its infinitive construction; the Peshitta ܕܡܫܝܚܐ prefixes the relative/genitive particle ܕ, marking it as the topic of the nominal clause.

Greek predicates with the explicit copula ἐστιν and the nominative υἱός; the Peshitta uses a nominal sentence with the enclitic pronoun ܗܘ functioning as copula alongside ܒܪܗ ('his son'); Latin employs the infinitive esse with accusative filium, three distinct syntactic strategies for the same predication.

All three name David in the genitive, but the word order differs: Greek places υἱὸς Δαυίδ adjacent, the Peshitta ܕܕܘܝܕ follows ܒܪܗ ܗܘ, while Latin postpones David to the very end after esse, a stylistic relocation typical of Latin periodic structure.

Greek closes the question with the semicolon-shaped interrogative mark attached to ἐστιν; and Latin with the question mark; the Peshitta supplies no terminal punctuation token, the interrogative force being carried lexically by ܐܝܟܢܐ.