Mark 3 : 11

Vulgate inserts a colon after the conjunction (et clamabant :), creating a stronger pause before the direct speech. Greek and Peshitta use simple coordination without such punctuation break.

Greek places the participle λέγοντες ('saying') after the main verb ἔκραζον ('they were crying out'), creating a supplementary participial construction. Vulgate follows this order (clamabant, dicentes). Peshitta merges both verbs into a single coordinated construction (ܘܩܥܝܢ ܘܐܡܪܝܢ, 'and they cried and said'), treating them as sequential actions rather than simultaneous.

Greek and Vulgate include the recitative ὅτι / colon to introduce direct discourse. Peshitta omits any introductory particle, moving directly from ܘܐܡܪܝܢ ('and they said') to the quoted speech ܐܢܬ ܗܘ ('You are'), a common Syriac idiom for direct quotation.

Greek and Peshitta preserve the emphatic pronoun-copula construction (σὺ εἶ / ܐܢܬ ܗܘ, 'You yourself are'), stressing the identity claim. Vulgate omits the entire clause, truncating the verse after the second colon and leaving the demons' confession unrecorded in this witness—a significant textual divergence requiring manuscript collation.

Greek transmits the full christological confession ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ('the Son of God') with double article. Peshitta attests ܒܪܗ ܕܐܠܗܐ ('Son of God') in construct state. Vulgate omits this entire predicate nominative, ending the verse prematurely—either through homoioteleuton, liturgical abbreviation, or reliance on a defective Greek Vorlage.