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Mark 10 : 17

EN As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”

ES Y saliendo él para ir su camino, vino uno corriendo, é hincando la rodilla delante de él, le preguntó: Maestro bueno, ¿qué haré para poseer la vida eterna?

ZH-HANS 耶稣出来行路的时候,有一个人跑来,跪在他面前,问他说:「良善的夫子,我当做什么事才可以承受永生?」

ZH-HANT 耶穌出來行路的時候,有一個人跑來,跪在他面前,問他說:「良善的夫子,我當做甚麼事才可以承受永生?」

Mark 10:16
Mark :
Mark 10:18

Critical apparatus

10 variants · 3 witnesses
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construction All three attest
Greek NT Καὶ
Peshitta ܘܟܕ
Vulgate Et cum

Greek opens with the simple coordinating conjunction Καὶ followed by a genitive absolute; the Peshitta fuses conjunction and temporal particle into ܘܟܕ ('and when'), while the Vulgate uses two words Et cum to introduce the cum + subjunctive temporal clause. The Syriac and Latin both make the temporal subordination explicit, whereas Greek leaves it to the participial construction.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT ἐκπορευομένου αὐτοῦ
Peshitta ܪܕܐ
Vulgate egressus esset

Greek employs a genitive absolute (ἐκπορευομένου αὐτοῦ) with explicit pronoun; the Peshitta renders the action with a single finite-like verb ܪܕܐ ('he was travelling') from root r-d-a, omitting an overt pronoun as the subject is carried by the verb; the Vulgate uses a periphrastic pluperfect subjunctive egressus esset. Each tradition expresses the departure with a different verbal-aspectual strategy.

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omission Greek NT only
Greek NT καὶ

Greek has a coordinating καὶ linking 'having run up' and 'having knelt'; both the Peshitta and Vulgate render the kneeling as a participial/adverbial phrase and do not supply a separate conjunction here, smoothing the syntax.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT γονυπετήσας
Peshitta ܢܦܠ ܥܠ ܒܘܪܟܘܗܝ
Vulgate genu flexo ante

Greek compresses the act of kneeling into the single denominative verb γονυπετήσας; the Peshitta unpacks it analytically as ܢܦܠ ܥܠ ܒܘܪܟܘܗܝ ('fell upon his knees') and the Vulgate likewise as genu flexo ante ('with knee bent before'). Both versions expand the compact Greek lexeme into a phrase, a common rendering of Greek verbs of posture.

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construction Two witnesses
Greek NT αὐτὸν
Vulgate eum

The Greek object pronoun αὐτὸν governed by γονυπετήσας is matched by Vulgate ante eum; the Peshitta carries the directional sense within ܥܠ ܒܘܪܟܘܗܝ ('upon his knees') and provides no separate accusative pronoun for the kneeling, the object being implied.

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grammar All three attest
Greek NT ἐπηρώτα
Peshitta ܘܡܫܐܠ ܗܘܐ
Vulgate rogabat

Greek uses the simple imperfect ἐπηρώτα ('he was asking'); the Peshitta builds a periphrastic past with participle plus the enclitic ܗܘܐ (ܡܫܐܠ ܗܘܐ), the standard Syriac means of expressing durative past; the Vulgate imperfect rogabat parallels the Greek directly.

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expansion All three attest
Greek NT αὐτόν·
Peshitta ܠܗ
Vulgate eum Magister

Greek αὐτόν and Syriac ܠܗ both supply the object pronoun 'him'; the Vulgate adds the explicit colon-punctuation (token 14) introducing direct speech, and the Peshitta further inserts a verb of speaking (see next group). The traditions differ in how they mark the transition to the quotation.

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expansion Peshitta only
Peshitta ܘܐܡܪ

The Peshitta inserts ܘܐܡܪ ('and said') to introduce the direct discourse, a Semitic narrative idiom that explicitly marks reported speech; neither the Greek nor the Vulgate supplies a separate verb of saying here, relying on ἐπηρώτα / rogabat alone.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT ἵνα
Peshitta ܕܐܬܪ
Vulgate vitam

Greek ἵνα + subjunctive expresses purpose; the Vulgate matches with ut + subjunctive; the Peshitta fuses the relative-purpose particle with the verb in ܕܐܬܪ ('that I may inherit'), the prefixed ܕ carrying the conjunctive force.

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lexical All three attest
Greek NT κληρονομήσω;¶
Peshitta ܕܐܬܪ

Greek κληρονομήσω ('I may inherit,' from root for inheritance) is rendered by the Vulgate with the broader percipiam ('I may obtain/receive'), softening the inheritance metaphor; the Syriac verb of acquisition is encoded within ܕܐܬܪ (already grouped), and the Greek interrogative is closed by the question mark, matched by the Vulgate's final ? (token 23).