Mark 16 : 16

Greek uses article + aorist participle (ὁ πιστεύσας); Vulgate employs relative pronoun + perfect indicative (Qui crediderit); Peshitta uses relative pronoun + active participle (ܐܝܢܐ ܕܡܗܝܡܢ). All three express the same substantival construction ('the one who believes'), but through different syntactic strategies typical of each language.

Greek uses future passive indicative (σωθήσεται); Vulgate employs future active periphrastic (salvus erit, literally 'will be saved'); Peshitta uses simple active imperfect (ܚܝܐ, 'lives/will live'). The Syriac choice of 'live' for 'be saved' reflects a common Semitic semantic range where salvation and life are conceptually interchangeable.

Vulgate inserts a colon to mark the major clause boundary between the positive and negative conditions. Neither Greek nor Peshitta manuscripts typically employ such mid-verse punctuation, though Greek uses a raised dot (·) which serves a similar but less emphatic function.

Greek uses article + contrastive particle + aorist participle (ὁ δὲ ἀπιστήσας); Vulgate employs relative pronoun + emphatic adverb + negated perfect (qui vero non crediderit); Peshitta uses relative pronoun + negative particle + active participle (ܘܐܝܢܐ ܕܠܐ ܡܗܝܡܢ). The Vulgate's 'vero' intensifies the contrast more explicitly than Greek δέ, while Peshitta's construction parallels the first clause structurally.