Mark 15 : 19

The Peshitta employs a periphrastic construction (ܡܚܝܢ ܗܘܘ, participle + auxiliary 'were') to render the Greek imperfect ἔτυπτον, a standard Syriac strategy for expressing continuous past action. Greek and Latin use synthetic imperfect forms (ἔτυπτον / percutiebant).

Greek places the possessive pronoun before the article-noun phrase (αὐτοῦ τὴν κεφαλήν); Vulgate inverts to noun-possessive (caput ejus); Peshitta uses a prepositional phrase (ܥܠ ܪܫܗ, 'upon his-head') with the preposition ܥܠ making the locative sense explicit, whereas Greek and Latin encode location through the accusative of extent.

The Vulgate inserts a colon after 'arundine,' creating a stronger pause before the next clause. Neither the Greek nor the Peshitta tradition marks a comparable syntactic break here, treating the sequence of mockery actions as a continuous series.

The Peshitta again uses periphrastic construction (ܘܪܩܝܢ ܗܘܘ, participle + 'were') for the Greek imperfect ἐνέπτυον, maintaining aspectual parallelism with the previous clause. Greek and Latin employ synthetic imperfects (ἐνέπτυον / conspuebant).

Greek uses a participial phrase (τιθέντες τὰ γόνατα, 'placing the knees') with article + accusative plural; Latin employs a similar participial construction (ponentes genua) without article; Peshitta uses a periphrastic finite verb (ܘܒܪܟܝܢ ܗܘܘ ܥܠ ܒܘܪܟܝܗܘܢ, 'and they were bending upon their knees') with prepositional phrase, converting the Greek participle into a coordinate main clause.