Greek has the articular dative τῷ παραλυτικῷ and the Vulgate the bare dative paralytico; the Peshitta expresses the indirect object with the prefixed lamadh on ܠܡܫܪܝܐ ('to the paralytic'), a regular Syriac construction for the dative relation.
EN Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?’
ES ¿Qué es más fácil, decir al paralítico: Tus pecados te son perdonados, ó decirle: Levántate, y toma tu lecho y anda?
ZH-HANS 或对瘫子说『你的罪赦了』,或说『起来!拿你的褥子行走』,哪一样容易呢?
ZH-HANT 或對癱子說『你的罪赦了』,或說『起來!拿你的褥子行走』,哪一樣容易呢?
Greek has the articular dative τῷ παραλυτικῷ and the Vulgate the bare dative paralytico; the Peshitta expresses the indirect object with the prefixed lamadh on ܠܡܫܪܝܐ ('to the paralytic'), a regular Syriac construction for the dative relation.
Greek marks the boundary before direct speech with a raised dot suffixed to παραλυτικῷ·, while the Vulgate uses a discrete colon token; both signal the onset of quoted speech without affecting sense.
Greek ἀφίενταί (present passive indicative 3rd plural, 'are forgiven') and Latin Dimittuntur match in tense and voice; the Peshitta ܕܫܒܝܩܝܢ is a passive participle with the relative/complementiser dalath prefixed, yielding a participial 'that [they] are forgiven' construction characteristic of Syriac.
The Vulgate inserts a second colon closing the first quoted clause ('peccata :') before the disjunctive an; neither the Greek nor the Peshitta marks this boundary with a separate token, the Greek subsuming it within the comma on ἁμαρτίαι.
The Vulgate opens the second direct speech with a discrete colon token, whereas the Greek marks the same juncture with a raised dot suffixed to εἰπεῖν· and the Peshitta with the complementiser dalath prefixed to ܕܩܘܡ.
Greek ἔγειρε and Latin Surge are bare imperatives; the Peshitta ܕܩܘܡ ('that arise/get up') carries the relative-complementiser dalath introducing the quoted command, a typical Syriac framing of direct speech.
The Greek καί coordinating 'arise and take up' is unrepresented in the Peshitta, which juxtaposes the imperatives ܩܘܡ ܫܩܘܠ asyndetically; the Vulgate likewise omits a conjunction here ('Surge, tolle'), so the Greek alone supplies the linking καί.
Greek articular noun plus enclitic possessive τὸν κράβαττόν σου and Latin grabatum tuum render the possessed object analytically; the Peshitta fuses noun and possessor into a single inflected form ܥܪܣܟ ('your pallet') with the 2nd singular suffix, the normal Syriac economy.
The Peshitta writes the final clause as a single word ܘܗܠܟ ('and walk'), with the coordinating waw prefixed to the verb, whereas Greek περιπάτει and Latin ambula stand as separate imperatives; the Vulgate further isolates the interrogative mark as a discrete token closing the rhetorical question.