Mark 5 : 20

The Vulgate inserts a comma after 'abiit', creating a stronger pause between departure and the beginning of proclamation. Greek and Peshitta employ simple conjunction without punctuation break, maintaining narrative flow.

Greek uses prepositional phrase with article (ἐν τῇ Δεκαπόλει); Vulgate mirrors this structure (in Decapoli) with comma; Peshitta employs a bound construct form (ܒܥܣܪܬ-ܡܕܝܢܬܐ, 'in-ten-cities') as a single hyphenated unit, reflecting typical Syriac nominal compounding.

Greek places the relative pronoun first (ὅσα ἐποίησεν αὐτῷ, 'how-much did for-him'); Vulgate inverts to 'quanta sibi fecisset' (accusative pronoun before verb); Peshitta uses ܡܕܡ ܕܥܒܕ ܠܗ ('what that-he-did to-him'), employing a relative particle construction with postposed dative pronoun.

Greek employs the article with the proper name (ὁ Ἰησοῦς), a standard Greek construction for known referents. Latin and Syriac omit the article, as neither language uses articles with proper names in this syntactic context.

The Vulgate inserts a colon after 'Jesus', marking a stronger rhetorical pause before the final clause. Greek uses a raised dot (·) with similar but lighter function; Peshitta has no corresponding punctuation, maintaining continuous narrative syntax.

Greek and Vulgate use simple imperfect forms (ἐθαύμαζον / mirabantur, 'they-were-marveling'). Peshitta employs a periphrastic construction with participle + auxiliary (ܬܡܝܗܝܢ ܗܘܘ, 'marveling they-were'), a characteristic Syriac durative-aspect strategy semantically equivalent to the Greek/Latin imperfect.