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New Testament · Rejection at Nazareth and the Twelve Sent · Mark

Mark 6 : 7

EN He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

ES Y llamó á los doce, y comenzó á enviarlos de dos en dos: y les dió potestad sobre los espíritus inmundos.

ZH-HANS 耶稣叫了十二个门徒来,差遣他们两个两个地出去,也赐给他们权柄,制伏污鬼;

ZH-HANT 耶穌叫了十二個門徒來,差遣他們兩個兩個地出去,也賜給他們權柄,制伏污鬼;

Mark 6:6
Mark :
Mark 6:8

Critical apparatus

7 variants · 3 witnesses
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construction All three attest
Greek NT προσκαλεῖται
Peshitta ܘܩܪܐ
Vulgate vocavit

The Peshitta condenses the Greek present-tense προσκαλεῖται ('he summons') and the conjunction into a single waw-prefixed perfect ܘܩܪܐ ('and he called'), collapsing the historic present into narrative past; the Vulgate likewise renders with the perfect vocavit, both flattening Mark's vivid praesens historicum.

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construction Two witnesses
Greek NT καὶ
Vulgate et cœpit

The Vulgate inserts a colon before et, dividing the clause with punctuation absent from both Greek and Syriac; the Greek καί here joins the two finite verbs, a connective which the Peshitta absorbs into the verbal prefix of ܘܫܪܝ.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT ἀποστέλλειν
Peshitta ܕܢܫܕܪ
Vulgate binos

Greek and Latin use a bare complementary infinitive (ἀποστέλλειν / mittere) governed by 'began', whereas Syriac employs a finite subordinate clause ܕܢܫܕܪ ('that he should send'), a typical Syriac construction substituting a d-prefixed imperfect for the Greek infinitive.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT δύο δύο
Peshitta ܬܪܝܢ ܬܪܝܢ
Vulgate et

The Greek distributive δύο δύο ('two by two') is rendered idiomatically by reduplication in Syriac ܬܪܝܢ ܬܪܝܢ, faithfully preserving the Semitic distributive pattern; the Vulgate renders the same sense with the single distributive numeral binos, the standard Latin lexicalisation of pairing.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT ἐδίδου
Peshitta ܘܝܗܒ
Vulgate illis

Greek ἐδίδου is imperfect ('he was giving/kept giving'), conveying iterative or durative action, while both the Peshitta perfect ܝܗܒ and the Latin imperfect dabat differ in aspect; only the Vulgate dabat matches the Greek durative force, the Syriac flattening it to simple past.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT τῶν πνευμάτων τῶν ἀκαθάρτων
Peshitta ܥܠ ܪܘܚܐ ܛܢܦܬܐ
Vulgate immundorum

Greek expresses the object of authority with an articular genitive (τῶν πνευμάτων τῶν ἀκαθάρτων, 'of the unclean spirits'), matched syntactically by the Latin genitive spirituum immundorum; the Peshitta instead governs the noun with the preposition ܥܠ ('over') plus ܪܘܚܐ ܛܢܦܬܐ, a more explicit prepositional construction expressing dominion.

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expansion Peshitta only
Peshitta ܕܢܦܩܘܢ

The Peshitta appends the relative clause ܕܢܦܩܘܢ ('that they should go out / be cast out'), an explanatory expansion specifying the purpose of the authority over unclean spirits; neither the Greek NA28 nor the Vulgate transmit this clause, which anticipates the exorcistic outcome of the apostolic mission (cf. Mark 6:13).