Mark 15 : 29

Greek and Latin open with a simple coordinating conjunction (καί / Et), whereas the Peshitta uses the emphatic compound ܘܐܦ ('and also, even'), lending an intensifying nuance to the bystanders' mockery absent in the other witnesses.

Greek substantivises a single participle (οἱ παραπορευόμενοι) and Latin matches with a bare participle (prætereuntes); the Peshitta employs a periphrastic relative construction ܐܝܠܝܢ ܕܝܢ ܕܥܒܪܝܢ ܗܘܘ ('those who were passing by'), including the postpositive particle ܕܝܢ and the auxiliary ܗܘܘ to express continuous past action.

The Greek imperfect ἐβλασφήμουν and the Latin imperfect blasphemabant convey durative past action with a single finite verb; the Peshitta renders the same aspect periphrastically with participle plus auxiliary ܡܓܕܦܝܢ ܗܘܘ, a standard Syriac means of expressing the imperfect.

Greek (τὰς κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν) and Latin (capita sua) both express 'their heads' analytically with an article/noun plus possessive; the Peshitta condenses this to the single suffixed form ܪܫܝܗܘܢ, where the possessive pronoun is morphologically attached to the noun.

Greek and Latin coordinate the participle with an explicit conjunction (καὶ λέγοντες / et dicentes); the Peshitta fuses conjunction and participle into the single prefixed form ܘܐܡܪܝܢ, an orthographic rather than semantic difference.

All three transliterate the interjection of derision (Greek Οὐά, Syriac ܐܘܢ, Latin Vah), but the Vulgate marks it with an exclamation point as a separate token, a punctuation feature absent in the Greek and Syriac manuscript tradition.

Both Greek (τὸν ναὸν) and Syriac (ܗܝܟܠܐ) read simply 'the temple', but the Clementine Vulgate adds the genitive templum Dei ('the temple of God'), an expansion likely harmonising toward the loftier characterisation of the sanctuary and not supported by the earliest Greek witnesses here.

Greek οἰκοδομῶν and the Vulgate reædificas ('rebuild', with the re- prefix making the restoration explicit); the Peshitta ܘܒܢܐ ܠܗ adds the resumptive object pronoun ܠܗ ('build it'), supplying the explicit object that Greek leaves implicit.

Greek (ἐν τρισὶν ἡμέραις) and Latin (in tribus diebus) use an explicit preposition with the dative/ablative; the Peshitta expresses the temporal span with the prefixed preposition ܠ on the numeral (ܠܬܠܬܐ ܝܘܡܝܢ), a normal Syriac idiom for 'in/within three days'.