EN Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.
ES Y los príncipes de los sacerdotes y todo el concilio buscaban testimonio contra Jesús, para entregarle á la muerte; mas no lo hallaban.
ZH-HANS 祭司长和全公会寻找见证控告耶稣，要治死他，却寻不着。
ZH-HANT 祭司長和全公會尋找見證控告耶穌，要治死他，卻尋不着。
The Greek nominative plural article οἱ marks the subject and has no separate Syriac or Latin lexical equivalent; both daughter versions express the definiteness inflectionally within the noun phrase 'chief priests'.
The single Greek compound ἀρχιερεῖς ('chief priests') is rendered analytically in both Syriac (ܪܒܝ ܟܗܢܐ, 'chiefs of the priests') and Latin (summi sacerdotes, 'high priests'), each splitting the lexeme into a head noun plus a qualifier of rank.
Greek ὅλον τὸ συνέδριον ('the whole Sanhedrin') is matched by Latin omne concilium, but Syriac compresses the phrase into the single suffixed noun ܟܢܫܗܘܢ ('their whole assembly'), using the possessive suffix to render 'whole' and supplying a native term for the council rather than a loanword.
The Greek imperfect ἐζήτουν is rendered periphrastically in Syriac with the participle ܒܥܝܢ plus the auxiliary ܗܘܘ, the standard Syriac construction for durative past action; Latin quærebant matches the imperfect directly with a synthetic form.
Greek expresses purpose with εἰς + articular infinitive (εἰς τὸ θανατῶσαι, 'so as to put to death'); Syriac uses a finite subjunctive clause ܕܢܡܝܬܘܢܝܗܝ ('that they might kill him'), and Latin employs ut + subjunctive with the idiom morti traderent ('hand over to death'), three syntactically distinct renderings of one purpose construction.
The Greek explicit accusative object αὐτόν is matched by Latin eum, while Syriac incorporates the pronominal object as the suffix -ܝܗܝ on the verb ܕܢܡܝܬܘܢܝܗܝ, requiring no separate token.
Greek imperfect ηὕρισκον ('they were finding') conveys repeated failure to find evidence; Syriac ܐܫܟܚܘ is perfect ('they did not find') and Latin inveniebant restores the imperfect, a slight aspectual variation among the three.
The Clementine Vulgate inserts a colon before nec inveniebant, marking the syntactic break between the purpose clause and the result; this editorial punctuation has no counterpart token in the Greek or Syriac.