Mark 3 : 2

The Peshitta employs a periphrastic construction ܘܢܛܪܝܢ ܗܘܘ (active participle + auxiliary 'were') to render the Greek imperfect παρετήρουν, a common Syriac strategy for expressing continuous past action. The Vulgate observabant uses a simple imperfect, mirroring the Greek synthetic form.

The Peshitta uses the compound conditional particle ܕܐܢ (d-ʾen, 'that if') where Greek has simple εἰ and Latin si. This reflects standard Syriac syntax for indirect questions, adding the subordinating ܕ- prefix to mark the embedded clause more explicitly.

Greek uses the dative plural with article τοῖς σάββασιν ('on the Sabbaths') in pre-verbal position; Vulgate employs ablative plural sabbatis without article, also pre-verbal. The Peshitta places ܒܫܒܬܐ ('on the Sabbath') post-verbally, reflecting typical Syriac VSO word order, and uses the singular form (a collective idiom for the Sabbath institution).

Greek employs a purpose clause with ἵνα + subjunctive (ἵνα κατηγορήσωσιν αὐτοῦ, 'in order that they might accuse him'), and Vulgate mirrors this with ut + subjunctive (ut accusarent illum). The Peshitta collapses the entire purpose clause into a single prefixed imperfect verb ܢܩܛܪܓܘܢܝܗܝ ('they-might-accuse-him'), with the object pronoun suffixed directly to the verb—a characteristic Syriac compression that omits an explicit purpose particle.