Greek uses the historic present λέγει ('he says'), a vivid Markan stylistic feature; both Latin (ait, perfect) and Syriac (ܘܐܡܪ, a waw-conjoined perfect that also subsumes the conjunction) flatten this to a simple past narrative tense. The Syriac fuses the conjunction and verb into a single token, so the connective 'and' is not lexically separable here.