Mark 10 : 46

Greek ἔρχονται and Latin veniunt are finite present-tense verbs ('they come'), while the Syriac ܘܐܬܘ is a perfect ('and they came'). The Peshitta verb is conjoined with the conjunction in a single token, hence its overlap with the conjunction group.

Greek uses preposition εἰς + accusative and the Vulgate uses bare accusative Jericho; the Peshitta prefixes the directional lamadh (ܠ-) to ܐܝܪܝܚܘ, all three expressing motion toward the city by differing morphosyntactic means.

The Vulgate marks the clause boundary with an explicit colon, whereas the Greek closes the sentence with a full stop; the Peshitta provides no punctuation token here. Punctuation differences reflect editorial conventions rather than textual variation.

Greek and Latin employ a genitive/ablative absolute participial construction (ἐκπορευομένου αὐτοῦ / proficiscente eo, 'as he was going out'); the Peshitta unpacks this with a finite verb ܢܦܩ governed by ܘܟܕ ('and when he went out'), explicitly naming ܝܫܘܥ (Jesus) as subject plus the demonstrative ܗܘ. This is a typical Syriac syntactic resolution of the Greek absolute.

All three attest 'and a large crowd' (ὄχλου ἱκανοῦ / plurima multitudine / ܘܟܢܫܐ ܣܓܝܐܐ); the qualifying adjectives ἱκανοῦ ('considerable'), plurima ('very great'), and ܣܓܝܐܐ ('many') differ slightly in nuance of size but are functionally synonymous.

Greek gives both the patronymic ὁ υἱὸς Τιμαίου and the Aramaic name Βαρτιμαῖος (itself meaning 'son of Timaeus'), as does the Vulgate (filius Timæi Bartimæus). The Peshitta has only ܛܝܡܝ ܒܪ-ܛܝܡܝ ('Timai, son of Timai'), preserving the genuine Aramaic form without the Greek explanatory gloss of the patronymic.

Greek alone reads ὁ τυφλὸς προσαίτης ('the blind beggar'), combining blindness and begging into the subject's description; the Vulgate renders cæcus here (token 18) and defers the begging notion to the participle mendicans (token 22) at clause-end. The Peshitta has only ܣܡܝܐ ('blind') and omits any word for 'beggar' entirely, a substantive shortening of the description.

Greek imperfect ἐκάθητο and Latin imperfect sedebat ('he was sitting') are matched in Syriac by the periphrastic past ܝܬܒ ܗܘܐ (participle/perfect + enclitic ܗܘܐ), the standard Syriac means of expressing durative past action.

Greek παρὰ τὴν ὁδόν and Latin juxta viam ('beside the road') are rendered in Syriac with the idiomatic compound preposition ܥܠ ܝܕ (literally 'upon the hand of') + ܐܘܪܚܐ, a fixed Syriac expression for 'beside/at the edge of', semantically equivalent.

The Peshitta appends ܘܚܕܪ ('and was begging/going about begging', root kh-d-r), supplying the very 'begging' notion that its earlier description omitted (cf. Greek προσαίτης, Vulgate mendicans). The Peshitta thus relocates the beggar element to a final coordinated verb rather than an attributive noun.

The Vulgate participle mendicans ('begging') at clause-end corresponds in sense to Greek προσαίτης but is grammaticalised as a present participle rather than a noun; it is grouped separately as it is positioned apart from cæcus. Functionally it parallels the Peshitta's final ܘܚܕܪ.