Mark 1 : 37

Greek opens with paratactic καί ('and') followed by an independent aorist, while both the Peshitta (ܘܟܕ) and the Vulgate (Et cum) recast the clause with a temporal subordinator ('and when'), converting the coordinate Greek structure into a subordinate temporal clause. The verdict is minor since the semantic content is preserved.

The Greek and Latin express the object pronoun as a free word (αὐτόν / eum), whereas the Peshitta encliticises the object suffix directly onto the verb ܐܫܟܚܘܗܝ ('they-found-him'), a routine Syriac morphological feature; the pronoun is therefore mapped onto the same verbal token.

The Greek transmits a second connective καί ('and they say'), linking the finding and the speaking with parataxis. Neither the Peshitta nor the Vulgate render this conjunction, since both already subordinated the first verb temporally, leaving the speech as the main clause.

Greek uses the vivid historic present λέγουσιν ('they say'), a Markan stylistic hallmark, whereas the Vulgate normalises to the perfect dixerunt ('they said') and the Syriac participle ܐܡܪܝܢ functions as a narrative present; the tense divergence is stylistic rather than semantic.

Greek introduces the speech with recitative ὅτι, functioning as quotation markers; the Vulgate renders this with Quia plus a colon, while the Peshitta supplies no overt complementiser, simply juxtaposing the quoted clause.

The Vulgate's Quia at index 7 corresponds to the Greek recitative ὅτι already accounted for; it carries the punctuation function of opening the direct discourse and is grouped here as the Latin quotation marker.

The Peshitta makes the subject explicit by adding ܐܢܫܐ ('people, men'), yielding 'all men seek you' rather than the bare substantival adjective 'everyone' of the Greek and Latin; this is a typical Syriac clarifying gloss to specify a human subject.