Mark 10 : 35

Greek προσπορεύονται (compound verb 'come toward') is rendered by Syriac ܩܪܒܘ ܠܘܬܗ (simple verb + prepositional phrase 'drew near to him') and Latin accedunt ad eum (simple verb + prepositional phrase 'approach to him'), both semantically equivalent but syntactically analytic rather than synthetic.

Greek includes the article οἱ and the numeral δύο ('the two') before υἱοὶ Ζεβεδαίου, emphasizing their dual identity as sons of Zebedee. Both Peshitta (ܒܢܝ ܙܒܕܝ) and Vulgate (filii Zebedæi) omit the article and numeral, presenting a more concise appositive construction.

The Vulgate inserts a colon (:) after dicentes to mark the transition to direct speech, a punctuation convention absent in the Greek and Peshitta manuscripts which rely on context alone.

Peshitta adds the independent pronoun ܚܢܢ ('we') after the verb ܨܒܝܢ ('we desire'), making the subject explicit for emphasis or clarity. Greek θέλομεν and Latin volumus encode the subject in verbal morphology alone, requiring no separate pronoun.

Greek employs a three-part subordinate construction (ἵνα ὃ ἐὰν 'that whatever if') to introduce the indefinite relative clause. Peshitta uses the single particle ܕܟܠ ('that all/whatever'), a more compact Syriac idiom. Vulgate mirrors Greek structure with ut quodcumque ('that whatever'), preserving the compound indefinite relative.