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Mark 2 : 9

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?

Mark 2:8
Mark :
Mark 2:10

Critical apparatus

9 variants · 3 witnesses
𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT τῷ παραλυτικῷ·
Peshitta ܠܡܫܪܝܐ
Vulgate paralytico

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.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
punctuation Two witnesses
Greek NT παραλυτικῷ·
Vulgate Dimittuntur

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.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
grammar All three attest
Greek NT ἀφίενταί
Peshitta ܕܫܒܝܩܝܢ
Vulgate tibi

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.

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punctuation Vulgate only
Vulgate dicere

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.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
punctuation Vulgate only
Vulgate grabatum

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.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT ἔγειρε
Peshitta ܕܩܘܡ
Vulgate tuum

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.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
omission Greek NT only
Greek NT καὶ

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.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT τὸν κράβαττόν σου
Peshitta ܥܪܣܟ
Vulgate ambula

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.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT περιπάτει;¶
Peshitta ܘܗܠܟ

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.