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Mark 8 : 35

EN For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

ES Porque el que quisiere salvar su vida, la perderá; y el que perdiere su vida por causa de mí y del evangelio, la salvará.

ZH-HANS 因为,凡要救自己生命 的,必丧掉生命;凡为我和福音丧掉生命的,必救了生命。

ZH-HANT 因為,凡要救自己生命 的,必喪掉生命;凡為我和福音喪掉生命的,必救了生命。

Mark 8:34
Mark :
Mark 8:36

Critical apparatus

15 variants · 3 witnesses
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construction All three attest
Greek NT ὃς
Peshitta ܟܠ ܡܢ
Vulgate Qui

Greek opens with the relative pronoun ὃς ('whoever'); the Peshitta renders this with the analytic construction ܟܠ ܡܢ ('everyone who'), a typical Syriac strategy for generalising relatives. Latin Qui matches the Greek single-word relative directly.

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construction Greek NT only
Greek NT ἐὰν

The Greek conditional particle ἐάν ('if') governing the subjunctive forms a protasis; neither Latin nor Syriac employ a separate conditional particle, folding the condition into the relative+verb construction. Latin uses the future-perfect voluerit to carry the conditional force.

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grammar All three attest
Greek NT θέλῃ
Peshitta ܕܨܒܐ
Vulgate voluerit

Greek θέλῃ (present subjunctive) and Latin voluerit (future perfect) both render the desire-verb in the protasis; the Peshitta ܕܨܒܐ uses the relative-marked perfect of ts-b-a ('to will/desire'), grammatically distinct but semantically equivalent.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ
Peshitta ܢܦܫܗ
Vulgate animam suam

Greek expresses 'his life/soul' with article + noun + possessive pronoun (τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ), matched by Latin animam suam; the Peshitta compresses this into the single suffixed form ܢܦܫܗ, the noun n-p-sh bearing the 3ms possessive enclitic.

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lexical All three attest
Greek NT σῶσαι
Peshitta ܕܢܚܐ
Vulgate salvam facere

Greek uses the simple aorist infinitive σῶσαι ('to save'); Latin renders periphrastically with salvam facere ('to make safe'); the Peshitta employs ܕܢܚܐ, the relative-marked imperfect of ḥ-y-a ('to make/keep alive'), construing salvation as preservation of life rather than rescue.

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construction Two witnesses
Greek NT αὐτήν·
Vulgate eam

Greek αὐτήν and Latin eam supply an explicit accusative object pronoun ('it'); the Peshitta has already incorporated this object as the enclitic on ܢܘܒܕܝܗ, so no separate token corresponds.

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punctuation Vulgate only
Vulgate qui

The Vulgate marks the apodosis/protasis boundary with an explicit colon, whereas the Greek uses a high point (·) attached to αὐτήν and the Peshitta relies on syntactic juncture alone; an editorial rather than textual divergence.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT ὃς δ᾽ (d᾽)
Peshitta ܘܟܠ
Vulgate autem perdiderit

Greek introduces the second clause with ὃς δ᾽ ἂν ('but whoever') — relative + adversative δέ + modal ἄν; Latin qui autem mirrors this with relative + adversative. The Peshitta condenses the whole into ܘܟܠ ('and everyone who'), substituting a coordinating ܘ for the adversative and again using the generalising ܟܠ idiom.

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grammar All three attest
Greek NT ἂν
Peshitta ܕܢܘܒܕ
Vulgate animam

Greek ἀπολέσει is future indicative and Latin perdiderit is future perfect, both inside the relative protasis; the Peshitta ܕܢܘܒܕ uses the relative-marked imperfect of the cognate root for 'lose/destroy', a tense difference without semantic consequence.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT ἀπολέσει τὴν ψυχὴν
Peshitta ܢܦܫܗ
Vulgate suam propter

As in the first clause, Greek τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ and Latin animam suam spell out 'his life' analytically, while the Peshitta uses the suffixed ܢܦܫܗ.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT ἐμοῦ
Peshitta ܘܡܛܠ
Vulgate Evangelium

Greek καί and Latin et are simple conjunctions, but the Peshitta repeats the preposition in ܘܡܛܠ ('and for the sake of'), distributing the causal phrase across both objects — a stylistic Syriac amplification.

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lexical All three attest
Greek NT καὶ τοῦ
Peshitta ܣܒܪܬܝ
Vulgate salvam

Greek τοῦ εὐαγγελίου and Latin Evangelium transliterate the Greek term 'gospel'; the Peshitta uses the native Syriac ܣܒܪܬܝ ('my good-news/proclamation', with first-person suffix), notably attaching the possessive 'my' to the gospel, which neither Greek nor Latin do here.

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construction Greek NT only
Greek NT εὐαγγελίου

Greek resumes the apodosis with the demonstrative οὗτος ('this one'), a resumptive subject pronoun emphasising the antecedent; neither Latin nor Syriac supply a corresponding demonstrative, letting the verb carry the subject.

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lexical All three attest
Greek NT οὗτος
Peshitta ܢܚܝܗ
Vulgate faciet eam

Greek σώσει ('will save') is matched by the Latin periphrasis salvam faciet and by the Peshitta ܢܚܝܗ ('will keep him/it alive', root ḥ-y-a with object suffix), the Syriac again construing salvation as preservation of life.

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construction Two witnesses
Greek NT σώσει

Greek αὐτήν and Latin eam furnish the explicit accusative object ('it'); the Peshitta has incorporated the object as the enclitic on ܢܚܝܗ, so no independent pronoun appears.