Mark 14 : 34

The Syriac collapses the conjunction and verb into a single perfect form ܘܐܡܪ ('and he said'), where Greek λέγει is a vivid historic present and the Latin ait a perfect. The choice of tense differs across all three but the narrative sense is identical.

The Vulgate punctuates with a colon (token 3) introducing direct speech, matching the Greek high point (·) appended to αὐτοῖς; the Peshitta has no equivalent punctuation token, reflecting Syriac scribal convention.

Greek περίλυπός ('exceedingly sorrowful', intensive περι-) is rendered by the simple Syriac adjective ܟܪܝܐ ('grieved') with the feminine copula ܗܝ, and by the Latin tristis ('sad'); both versions lose the intensive prefix of the Greek compound.

Greek and Latin express possession by a postposed genitive pronoun (ψυχή μου / anima mea), whereas the Peshitta uses a dative-marked construction with the proleptic ܠܗ ('to it') anticipating ܠܢܦܫܝ ('to my soul'), an idiomatic Syriac ethic-dative anticipation absent from the other witnesses.

Greek γρηγορεῖτε is a present imperative ('keep watching'); the Syriac ܘܐܬܬܥܝܪܘ is an Ettaphal/reflexive form from the root th-e-r ('rouse oneself, be awake') prefixed with the conjunction, fusing the 'and watch' clause into one verb, while the Latin vigilate matches the simple imperative sense.