Mark 14 : 2

Greek uses imperfect ἔλεγον alone; Peshitta employs periphrastic construction ܘܐܡܪܝܢ ܗܘܘ (participle + auxiliary 'were'); Vulgate uses simple imperfect Dicebant. All three express continuous past action, but Syriac makes the durative aspect explicit through analytic construction.

Greek γάρ ('for') provides causal connection to preceding context; Vulgate substitutes autem ('however/but'), marking adversative or transitional nuance; Peshitta omits any connective particle, allowing asyndetic transition typical of Semitic narrative style.

Greek μήποτε is a compound negative particle ('lest, otherwise'); Peshitta ܕܠܡܐ is the standard Syriac equivalent; Vulgate expands to two-word phrase ne forte, making the conditional warning more explicit through Latin analytic construction.

Greek and Peshitta place the verb ('will be') before the subject noun; Vulgate inverts to tumultus fieret, placing subject before verb in accordance with Latin stylistic preference for subjunctive clauses introduced by ne.

Greek uses genitive construction τοῦ λαοῦ ('of the people') modifying θόρυβος; Vulgate mirrors with in populo, shifting to locative prepositional phrase ('among the people'); Peshitta ܒܥܡܐ likewise uses preposition ܒ ('in/among'), reflecting Semitic preference for prepositional over genitive constructions in such contexts.