Mark 13 : 33

The Vulgate inserts a colon after 'orate' to mark a stronger syntactic break before the causal clause, whereas Greek uses a raised dot (·) and Peshitta employs no explicit punctuation marker at this juncture. This reflects Latin rhetorical convention rather than a textual variant.

Greek places γάρ ('for') post-verbally after οἴδατε, following standard Koine syntax for causal particles. Peshitta and Vulgate both position the causal conjunction (ܓܝܪ / enim) pre-verbally, reflecting their respective languages' preference for clause-initial conjunctions in explanatory statements.

The Peshitta supplies the explicit subject pronoun ܐܢܬܘܢ ('you'), which is grammatically unnecessary but stylistically preferred in Syriac to clarify the second-person plural subject. Greek and Latin encode this information morphologically in the verb endings (οἴδατε / nescitis) and omit the pronoun.

Greek employs the definite article ὁ with καιρός ('the time'), a construction mirrored in Peshitta with the pronominal suffix ܗܘ ('it is') functioning as a copula plus demonstrative. Vulgate omits any article, as classical Latin lacks definite articles, rendering simply 'tempus sit' in subjunctive mood within the indirect question.