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Mark 3 : 23

EN He summoned them, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

ES Y habiéndolos llamado, les decía en parábolas: ¿Cómo puede Satanás echar fuera á Satanás?

ZH-HANS 耶稣叫他们来,用比喻对他们说:「撒但怎能赶出撒但呢?

ZH-HANT 耶穌叫他們來,用比喻對他們說:「撒但怎能趕出撒但呢?

Mark 3:22
Mark :
Mark 3:24

Critical apparatus

5 variants · 3 witnesses
𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT προσκαλεσάμενος
Peshitta ܘܩܪܐ
Vulgate convocatis

Greek uses an aorist middle participle (προσκαλεσάμενος, 'having summoned to himself'); the Vulgate matches with an ablative absolute (convocatis eis); the Syriac employs a finite verb ܘܩܪܐ ('and he called'), coordinated paratactically rather than subordinated as a participle, a typical Semitic preference for parataxis over hypotaxis.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
expansion Peshitta only
Peshitta ܝܫܘܥ

The Peshitta inserts the explicit subject ܝܫܘܥ ('Jesus'), absent from both the Greek and the Vulgate, which carry the subject only implicitly in the verb. This is a characteristic Syriac clarifying expansion supplying the named agent for the participial/finite clause.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT ἔλεγεν
Peshitta ܐܡܪ
Vulgate dicebat

Greek ἔλεγεν is imperfect ('he was saying', durative aspect) and the Vulgate dicebat likewise renders it imperfect; the Syriac ܐܡܪ is the simple perfect ('he said'), flattening the iterative/durative nuance of the Greek imperfect into an unmarked past.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT σατανᾶν
Peshitta ܠܣܛܢܐ
Vulgate ejicere

Greek marks the second 'Satan' by the accusative case ending (σατανᾶν) and Latin by the accusative Satanam; the Syriac, lacking case inflection, signals the direct object with the proclitic preposition ܠ (ܠܣܛܢܐ), an analytic equivalent of the Greek/Latin accusative.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT ἐκβάλλειν;
Peshitta ܠܡܦܩܘ

Greek uses the present active infinitive ἐκβάλλειν ('to cast out') and the Vulgate the infinitive ejicere; the Syriac ܠܡܦܩܘ is an infinitive of the root p-q (Aphel, 'to bring/cast out') prefixed with ܠ, syntactically parallel but built on a 'go out' causative rather than a 'throw out' lexeme.