Mark 14 : 63

Greek ἀρχιερεύς is a single compound noun ('high priest'); both Syriac ܪܒ ܟܗܢܐ ('chief of priests') and Latin Summus sacerdos render it analytically as a two-word construct phrase, a routine periphrastic equivalence for the office.

Greek λέγει stands as the historic present ('says'); Latin ait is past/aoristic in force, and the Vulgate additionally introduces the direct speech with an explicit colon (token 7), a punctuation marker absent from the Greek beyond its raised dot.

Greek expresses the idea with a noun-plus-verb idiom χρείαν ἔχομεν ('have we need', 1st pl. active); Syriac uses a passive-impersonal construction ܡܬܒܥܝܢ ܠܢ ('are required for us') with the dative ܠܢ; Latin compresses both into the single verb desideramus ('do we desire/need'), a synthetic rendering of the same sense.

All three attest the noun 'witnesses' (μαρτύρων / ܣܗܕܐ / testes); the Greek bears its genitive case from the governing χρείαν, the Vulgate uses the accusative testes as object of desideramus, and only the Vulgate carries an explicit interrogative mark (token 12) corresponding to the Greek question particle implicit in the raised dot of μαρτύρων;.