Mark 9 : 38

The participle λέγων ('saying'), retained by the Vulgate as dicens followed by a colon introducing direct speech, is omitted by the Peshitta, which proceeds directly to the vocative without a redundant verb of speaking — a characteristic Syriac economy.

Greek διδάσκαλε ('Teacher') is matched semantically by Vulgate Magister, but the Peshitta substitutes the transliterated Semitic honorific ܪܒܝ ('Rabbi'), preserving the underlying Aramaic address that the Greek itself glosses elsewhere (cf. John 1:38).

The Greek prepositional phrase ἐν τῷ ὀνόματί σου and the Vulgate in nomine tuo are analytic constructions; the Peshitta condenses the whole into a single inflected form ܒܫܡܟ ('in your name') with proclitic preposition and pronominal suffix, a normal Syriac synthetic strategy.

All three attest 'casting out demons', but the Peshitta inverts the Greek participle-object order to verb ܕܡܦܩ followed by object ܫܐܕܐ within a relative clause headed by the proclitic ܕ-, whereas Greek and Latin keep the participle ἐκβάλλοντα / ejicientem before δαιμόνια / dæmonia.

The Greek and Vulgate first give a full relative clause ('who does not follow us') and then the main clause ('and we forbade him'); the Peshitta radically compresses this, fronting the action with ܘܟܠܝܢܝܗܝ ('and we forbade him', verb with object suffix) and deferring the cause to the following clause, reorganising the syntactic sequence.

The causal clause ὅτι οὐκ ἠκολούθει ἡμῖν ('because he was not following us') is preserved by the Peshitta as ܥܠ ܕܠܐ ܢܩܦ ܠܢ but is entirely absent from the Clementine Vulgate at this point, which closes the verse after prohibuimus eum — a notable Western shortening of the doubled 'follow' motif.