Mark 6 : 1

Greek uses a finite aorist verb (ἐξῆλθεν, 'he went out'); the Vulgate renders with a deponent perfect participle (egressus, 'having gone out') subordinating the departure to the main verb abiit; the Peshitta ܘܢܦܩ is a finite perfect like the Greek but conjoined with the prefixed waw, which it shares with the conjunction Καί. The participial construction in Latin is a stylistic Vulgate preference for sequencing motion verbs.

Greek ἐκεῖθεν is a single adverb ('from there'); the Peshitta unpacks it analytically as preposition plus locative adverb ܡܢ ܬܡܢ ('from there'), while the Vulgate inde is a single adverb matching the Greek. The Syriac periphrasis is idiomatic and semantically equivalent.

Greek joins the second clause with an explicit conjunction καί before the historic present ἔρχεται; the Peshitta encodes this conjunction in the prefixed waw of ܘܐܬܐ; the Vulgate, however, supplies no conjunction here, having absorbed the coordination into its participial syntax (egressus...abiit). The clause linkage thus differs structurally across the three witnesses.

Greek employs the historic present ἔρχεται ('he comes'), a vivid Markan stylistic feature; both the Peshitta ܘܐܬܐ and Vulgate abiit render it with a simple past, neutralising the dramatic present tense. The Latin abiit ('he went away') also shifts the directional nuance from arrival (ἔρχομαι) toward departure.

Greek expresses the goal with preposition, article, and noun (εἰς τὴν πατρίδα, 'into the hometown'); the Vulgate mirrors this with in patriam; the Peshitta compresses preposition and noun into a single inflected form ܠܡܕܝܢܬܗ ('to his city'), with the possessive suffix already attached, eliminating the need for a separate pronoun.

The Vulgate inserts a colon here, a medial punctuation mark dividing the verse into two cola. Neither the Greek nor the Syriac transmits punctuation at this point in the underlying critical text, so this is an editorial feature of the Clementine edition.

Greek uses the historic present ἀκολουθοῦσιν ('they follow'); the Vulgate renders an imperfect sequebantur ('they were following'). The Peshitta uses a periphrastic construction with active participle ܘܕܒܝܩܝܢ plus the auxiliary ܗܘܘ ('they were cleaving/following'), expressing durative past aspect closely matching the Latin imperfect rather than the Greek present.

The Vulgate closes the verse with a colon rather than a full stop, signalling continuation into the following pericope. This punctuation is editorial to the Clementine tradition and has no counterpart in the unpointed Greek or Syriac source text.