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Mark 13 : 4

EN “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?”

ES Dinos, ¿cuándo serán estas cosas? ¿y qué señal habrá cuando todas estas cosas han de cumplirse?

ZH-HANS 「请告诉我们，什么时候有这些事呢？这一切事将成的时候有什么预兆呢？」

ZH-HANT 「請告訴我們，甚麼時候有這些事呢？這一切事將成的時候有甚麼預兆呢？」

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Critical apparatus

3 variants · 3 witnesses
𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT τὸ σημεῖον
Peshitta ܐܬܐ
Vulgate erit quando

Greek τὸ σημεῖον ('the sign') is an articular nominative left as a verbless predicate; the Vulgate supplies an explicit future copula erit ('will be the sign'), while the Peshitta renders the noun as ܐܬܐ ('sign') without article or copula. The verb-supply in Latin is an interpretive expansion of an elliptical Greek nominal clause.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT μέλλῃ συντελεῖσθαι
Peshitta ܕܩܪܝܒܢ ܠܡܫܬܠܡܘ
Vulgate consummari

Greek uses μέλλῃ + present infinitive συντελεῖσθαι ('may be about to be accomplished'), and the Vulgate matches this periphrastic future with incipient consummari ('shall begin to be completed'). The Peshitta restructures with ܕܩܪܝܒܢ ('that are near/imminent') governing the infinitive ܠܡܫܬܠܡܘ ('to be fulfilled'), expressing imminence adjectivally rather than through a 'be about to' auxiliary.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
punctuation Two witnesses
Greek NT καὶ
Vulgate et

The Vulgate marks the first question explicitly with an interrogative '?' after fient, and the Greek similarly closes the whole compound question with the high-point and terminal ';' (=question mark); the Peshitta carries no punctuation tokens, leaving the interrogative force to be inferred from the interrogative particles ܐܡܬܝ and ܘܡܢܐ.