Mark 12 : 40

Greek uses the substantivised participle οἱ κατεσθίοντες ('those devouring'), continuing the participial chain from the preceding verses; Latin and Syriac both render this with a relative clause (qui devorant / ܗܢܘܢ ܕܐܟܠܝܢ, 'those who devour'). The Syriac demonstrative ܗܢܘܢ here introduces the relative, a construction that is mirrored a second time below.

Greek τὰς οἰκίας carries the feminine plural article; both Latin domos and Syriac ܒܬܐ render the plural noun without an article, the Vulgate following Latin's articleless system and the Peshitta omitting the determinative as is normal for an indefinite plural object.

Greek expresses the manner with a bare dative προφάσει ('by pretext'); the Vulgate analytically renders this with the preposition + ablative sub obtentu ('under the pretext'), while the Peshitta uses ܒܥܠܬܐ ('with/for a cause, pretext'), the preposition ܒ supplying the instrumental force lost in the Greek synthetic dative.

Greek μακρὰ προσευχόμενοι ('praying at length') uses adverbial accusative + participle; the Vulgate nominalises with the genitive phrase prolixæ orationis ('of lengthy prayer') governed by obtentu, while the Peshitta employs a finite-like participial verb ܕܡܘܪܟܝܢ ('who prolong', root w-r-k) with the object 'their prayers' (ܨܠܘܬܗܘܢ), turning the adverb into a transitive verb of prolonging — three distinct syntactic strategies for one idea.

All three attest the noun 'judgment' (κρίμα / ܕܝܢܐ / judicium) modified by the comparative 'greater/more' (περισσότερον / ܝܬܝܪܐ / prolixius); however the Peshitta places the adjective after the noun (ܕܝܢܐ ܝܬܝܪܐ) per Semitic noun-adjective order, whereas Greek and Latin front the comparative before the noun.

The Vulgate inserts a colon after orationis to separate the description of the offenders from the verdict pronounced upon them; this punctuation has no counterpart in the Greek (which uses a comma) or the unpunctuated Peshitta clause boundary.